Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll...
Category : Literature
Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
Remembering Maya: Quotes from Mom & Me & Mom
“Frequently, I have been asked how I got to be this way. How did I, born black in a white country, poor in a society...
ON THE PULSE OF MORNING: Inaugural Poem by Maya Angelou
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokens Of their sojourn here...
You Are by Kwame McPherson
You Are …the honey in my Cerassie tea …the Ackee with my Saltfish …the Rum in my Coke …the Ganja in my cake, well soaked…...
Somebody Blew Up America: The Poem
Amiri Baraka wrote the poem Somebody Blew Up America about the September 11th Attacks. The poem was explicit in its condemnation of US foreign policy...
She’s Free! by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
How say that by law we may torture and chase A woman whose crime is the hue of her face? – With her step on...
Quotes from Roots by Alex Haley
“Out under the moon and stars, alone with his son…he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up with his face to...
Poem for My Father by Quincy Troupe
for Quincy T. Troupe Sr. father, it was an honor to be there, in the dugout with you, the glory of great black men swinging...
Quotes from Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
“Perhaps even more important to them than freedom was the fact that no leaf fell, no word uttered or deed executed that did not echo...
Quotes from Goree: Point of Departure by Angela Barry
“The African family was like a city, vast and embracing to all of like mind, but full of perils for those who were not. Looking...