My friendthey don’t careif you’re an individualista leftist a rightista shithead or a snakeThey will try to exploit...
Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an African-American poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. Although she never published her own...
Langston Hughes, considered the unofficial Poet Laureate of African-Americans, was a prolific writer, who published ten volumes of poetry. One of Hughes’s most widely anthologized poem was his first published poem,...
Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) was a prolific and widely respected African-American poet. Clifton...
Maya Angelou lived many lives in her 86 years. She was an author, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage...
i am accused of tending to the pastas if i made it,as if i sculpted itwith my own hands. i did not.this past was waiting for mewhen i came,a monstrous unnamed...
After four score years of freedomOur so-called leaders sayThe the race has made great progressAnd we face the...
If the muse were mine to tempt it And my feeble voice were strong, If my tongue were...
I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night I...
Where have you gone with your confident walk with your crooked smile why did you leave me when...
For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and...
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?...
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…
