Best Black Poets Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include preachers, musicians, and blues singers).”

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“One We are pulled to each other like paper clips into the embrace of magnetized iron like a lightning rod hailing the finger of thunder, and we can't say why.”

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Book:I Will Be Silent

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“Black Girl Your skin is dark chocolate dipped in honey. You are a delicious shade of melanin.”

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Book:I Will Be Silent

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“Earwax Allow me to slowly undress your hair and make love to your ears.”

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Book:I Will Be Silent

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“Bright Dazzle their eyes with your florescent smile, pitch tent with the waking sunset.”

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Book:I Will Be Silent

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“Watermaid You walk like a river and I see you, gliding over the tide, each evening, your feet barely making prints in the sands.”

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Book:I Will Be Silent

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“Swimmer You are a water nymph from the ocean rising.”

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Book:I Will Be Silent

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“Moment In my arms you are a trembling leaf licked by the erotic tongue of the wind.”

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Book:I Will Be Silent

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“You & I Both of us are like two hands in a painting, gliding towards each other in the dark. Trying to communicate a message, that no words, but only touch can express.”

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Book:I Will Be Silent

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“Flame You burn like a candle or a hurricane lamp, your eyes, shut like a window at dusk. Your hair, orange ropes. The flames from your aura reveal a rapture of release, I see in the cleft of your teeth.”

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Book:I Will Be Silent

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“In genocides rape is most times weaponized by the aggressive side, and the suffering sides to such wickedness are women, old and young. Such actions tear at my core and reveal mankind’s depravity at its worst.”

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Book:I Will Be Silent

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“Each time a child goes up as an incendiary, something within me rips open. Until a day of reckoning comes I don’t think I will ever get over the self-immolation of each of those children. And my words are inadequate to show the depth of my grief or my anger. Nothing can. Only my deliberations with silence.”

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“What is Raven from my perspective? I believe it is the collective consciousness of the suffering masses melding into one voice. I believe it is conscience personified. Perhaps, a messenger with a message. Or even, the depths of my consciousness rising to the surface. Whatever it is, “Raven” started me on a quest. And I have been on this journey for quite some time.”

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Book:I Will Be Silent

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“Most times the poetic in life is found in many things around us. You would find it in the deft play of a football player on a soccer pitch. An orange sky with the descending sun at twilight. The laughter of a toddler playing with dirt. Or the feel of the wind caressing your face. Poetry most times is found in the profound.”

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Book:I Will Be Silent

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“For me poetry is not the exclusive domain of academia. Stuff to be studied and dissected in college classrooms like a lab rat to find out what makes it thick. It is a form of human expression. The transference of human emotion from one person to another whether it is written or performed.”

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“Portrait True beauty is hidden in the fringes of softness. Something which summons you to experience but not to possess.”

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“Scales Balance is profit and losses. Acid and alkali. Vinegar and sugar. Depression and euphoria.”

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“What are we? We are a combination of sand and gunpowder, cosmic energy and sawdust. We are black holes and novae, children’s laughter, and tears of time.”

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Book:I Will Be Silent

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