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“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”

“The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.”

Soul Light Poetry White Poet Transparent White Light Irises

Book:Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic

Source: Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic

“The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!”

Years Literature Language White Fire Poet Sweet Flower Picks Independent Folks Forty Lovable Incense

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“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

“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

“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

“It was a little harder when I first went to Egypt when I was 18 years old and being a white woman with a knapsack and in blue jeans. But again I was part of the rucksack revolution there was some grace there. You could put it that way. And confidence as well because I thought of myself as a poet. That was part of it. I was going for that, to have experiences to make the work.”

Way Years Firsts Wells Littles White Grace Poet Revolution Harder Blue Egypt Jeans Blue Jeans

Author:Anne Waldman

“There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a poetry of evasion, and I have problems with this. I believe poetry has always been political, long before poets had to deal with the page and white space . . . it's natural.”

People Thinking Believe Long Whole Moments Problem Political I Believe Natural Space White Deals Poet Pages Sameness Evasion American Poetry This I Believe White Space

Author:Yusef Komunyakaa

“Film relates to almost every other form of expression, but poetry is a bit abstract in its strength and sometimes even the white spaces on the page are evocative almost as much as where the text is. Certain poets have played with that.”

Sometimes Film Form Certain Bits Space White Poet Expression Pages Relate Abstract Poetry Is White Space

Author:Jim Jarmusch