Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
Amiri Baraka wrote the poem Somebody Blew Up America about the September 11th Attacks. The poem was explicit...
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 his baby up with his face to the heaven and said softly, ‘Fend...
for Quincy T. Troupe Sr. father, it was an honor to be there, in the dugout with you,...
“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 perils for those who were not. Looking out on the gathering darkness, she...
Ben Okri is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist, widely regarded as one of the leading African writers...
Marcus Wicker is the acclaimed author of three poetry collections: Dear Mothership (2026), Silencer (2017), and Maybe the...
I know brokers of diamond dreams, who copulate in mines when mates are in fetters. I know IMF; International Misery Fellows, whose kindness borders on wretchedness. I know desire that flowered...
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…
