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“let her be born let her be born & handled warmly.”
― for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
― for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
“The reaction from black men to for colored girls was in a way very much like the white reaction to black power. The body traditionally used to power and authority interpreting, through their own fear, my work celebrating the self-determination and centrality of women as a hostile act. For men to walk out feeling that the work was about them spoke to their own patriarchal delusions more than to the actuality of the work itself. It was as if merely placing the story outside themselves was an attack. for colored girls was and is for colored girls.”
― for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
― for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
“i’m a poet who writes in english come to share the worlds witchu”
― for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
― for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
“For those who feel homesick for a place they’ve never been to. Those who seek even if they do not know what (or where) it is that they are seeking. Those who seek will find. Their doors have been waiting for them.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“Knowing a woman's mind and spirit had been allowed me, with dance I discovered my body more intimately than I had imagined possible. With the acceptance of the ethnicity of my thighs and backside, came a clearer understanding of my voice as a woman and poet. The freedom to move in space, to demand of my own sweat perfection that could continually be approached, though never known, waz poem to me, my body and mind ellipsing, probably for the first time in my life. Dance as explicated by Raymond Sawyer and Ed Mock insisted that everything African, everything halfway colloquial, a grimace, a strut, an arched back over a yawn, waz mine. I moved what waz my unconscious knowledge of being a colored woman's body to my known everydayness.”
― For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
― For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
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