Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
Margaret Walker was an African American poet and writer. She began her literary career in the 1930s and...
For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and...
There is a searing, uncompromising anger that runs through the work of Haitian writer and revolutionary Jacques Roumain, an anger forged in the fires of captivity, colonisation, and class oppression. Nowhere...
listen children keep this in the place you have for keeping always keep it all ways we have...
Angelina Weld Grimké was an African-American poet and playwright, an important forerunner of the Harlem Renaissance. “I oft have...
When you have emptied our calabashes into your porcelain bowls overflowing the surplus spilling and seeping into foreign soil when you have cleaved the heads of our young and engraved upon...
Etheridge Knight’s poem “Belly Song” appears in his 1973 collection Belly Song and Other Poems, published after his release from prison and...
Ytasha L. Womack is the author, filmmaker, dancer and innovator whose book Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci...
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 rise. Does my sassiness upset you?...
“Frequently, I have been asked how I got to be this way. How did I, born black in...
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon. The dinosaur, who...
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… the Hummingbird in my Hibiscus Touching...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
