Margaret Walker: A Literary Mother
Margaret Walker was an African American poet and writer. She began her literary career in the 1930s and emerged as a “literary mother” to writers...
Category : Literature
Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
For My People by Margaret Walker
For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees, praying their prayers nightly to an...
Filthy Negroes by Jacques Roumain
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...
Listen Children by Lucille Clifton
listen children keep this in the place you have for keeping always keep it all ways we have never hated black listen we have been...
Angelina Weld Grimké
Angelina Weld Grimké was an African-American poet and playwright, an important forerunner of the Harlem Renaissance. “I oft have dreamed the bliss Of the nectar in...
When You Have Emptied Our Calabashes by Iyamide Hazeley
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...
Belly Song by Etheridge Knight
Etheridge Knight’s poem “Belly Song” appears in his 1973 collection Belly Song and Other Poems, published after his release from prison and is recognised as a key work in...
Afrofuturism: An Interview with Ytasha L. Womack
Ytasha L. Womack is the author, filmmaker, dancer and innovator whose book Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi and Fantasy explores black sci fi culture, bleeks, black...
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...
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...