Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
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...
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 which Baraka felt created a climate...
How say that by law we may torture and chase A woman whose crime is the hue of...
“Out under the moon and stars, alone with his son…he walked to the edge of the village, lifted...
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 their lives as bats, at tiny...
“Perhaps even more important to them than freedom was the fact that no leaf fell, no word uttered...
“The African family was like a city, vast and embracing to all of like mind, but full of...
I Held You in the Square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile. The dreams I could never touch Felt like your body. Your gentleness made the Night soft....
But you made every delicate, elegant wrist & glistening ankle. But you made them beautiful in braided rope...
I know brokers of diamond dreams, who copulate in mines when mates are in fetters. I know IMF;...
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…
