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“Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?”

Use Black Blood Poet Red Lust Colour Wheelbarrows

Book:Thirteen Reasons Why

Source: Thirteen Reasons Why

“If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of them, ‘No, you stay home tonight, you won’t be welcome’/ because I’m going to an all-white party where I can be gay but not Black / Or I’m going to a Black poetry reading, and half the poets are anti-homosexual / or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me / The day all the different parts of me can come along / we would have what I would call / a revolution”

“I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.”

Mother Black Identity Poet Stronger Feminist Warrior Indivisible

Author:Audre Lorde

“It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.It weepsfor the black people who think like white people.It weepsfor the Indians who think like settlers.It weepsfor the children who think like adults.It weepsfor the free who think like prisoners.Most of all, it weepsfor the cowgirls who think like cowboys.”

People Ifs Thinking Children Doe Has Beens Soul Black White Magic Poet Adults Forgotten Bones Prisoner Black People Decline Continents Cowboy Weeping Buffalo Settlers Cowgirls

Author:Tom Robbins

“When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.”

Black College Poet Crowds Cigarette Sweaters Camels Turtlenecks

Author:Peter Coyote

“I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.”

Poetry Black White Study Poet Sitting Awful Pushing

Author:Anne Sexton

“I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.”

Made Form Poetry Language Black White Movement Color Poet Red Blue Green Senses Rhythm Poetic Flattered Vowels Consonants

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

“the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are”

Truth Faces Poetry Fighting Black White Dying Poet Truth Is Racism Mouths Black And White Face To Face

Book:Odes

Source: Odes

“Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.”

Death Poetry Dies Black Feet Poet Dust Buried Trumpets All Black

Book:The Essential Etheridge Knight

Source: The Essential Etheridge Knight

“Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.”

Should Poetry Black White Boys Poet Bridges Leap Steel

Book:Belly song and other poems

Source: Belly song and other poems

“Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.”

Writing Humans Use Language Stars Black Prayer Results Poet Command Vulnerable Sentiments Efficient Elegance Urgent Use Of Language

Author:Kwame Dawes

“The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.”

Character Seems Black Voice Poet Mountain Traditional Hiking Lyrical

Author:Robert Morgan

“I just said let's get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too. Some Latino poets who barely speak English and Asian poets who can't believe how discriminated against they are. It was luck nad being in the right place. I wasn't saying nothing somebody else wasn't saying but they wouldn't hear it from them.”

Men Want Believe Made Said Speak Black Stage Poet Tvs Luck Bunch Made It They Said Unlikely Asian Latino Right Place Speak English Saying Nothing

Author:Russell Simmons

“Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.”

People Writing Country Inspiration Kids Actors Black Millions Poet Flying

Author:Russell Simmons