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“I have crossed an ocean
I have lost my tongue
from the root of the old one
a new one has sprung”
Grace Nichols, The Fat Black Woman's Poems
“ضوء الشمعة
ــــــــــ
ضوء الشمعة
دائماً يأتى ليلاً
تومض على السقف
بضوئها الضعيف

كطفلة أحدق بصعوبة
عبر الظلام
متذكرة القول الشعبى القديم
"ضوء الشمعة يعنى
أن الضوء الأقوى سيأتى
أن الضوء الأقوى سيحدث"

و لكننى لا أستطيع أن أستريح
فضوء الشمعة كان سحراً و خطراً
له وظيفة
أن يومض و يخبو بقوة
كالموت.”
Grace Nichols, The Fat Black Woman's Poems
“شعار المرأة السوداء البدينة على باب غرفة نومها" أن تموت ممتلئاً بالأمل/ أفضل من أن تعيش بيأسٍ هزيل.”
Grace Nichols, The Fat Black Woman's Poems
“Not every skin-teeth
is a smile 'Massa'

if you see me smiling
when you pass

if you see me bending
when you ask

Know that I smile
know that I bend

only the better
to rise and strike
again”
Grace Nichols, The Fat Black Woman's Poems
“whatever tongue
we speak
the old ghost
asserts itself
in dusky echoes”
Grace Nichols, The Fat Black Woman's Poems
“One of the things we do as poets, is to try to preserve experiences, people, places important to us, in an effort to save them from time's erasure.”
Grace Nichols, Passport to Here and There

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