Black Poetry Quotes
Collection of top 25 famous quotes about Black Poetry
Black Poetry Quotes & Sayings
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Do not trap yourself into an owl's hooting soundwhere sad nights linger through the blackness of a hound — Munia Khan
The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
— Maya Angelou
No reprimand in the mirrorSlow walk to Liberia
Slow dance across the Sahara
Slow unraveling of gray matter — Mellon Black
My gray zone is starting to include poetry here white is not absolute white black is not absolute black the edges of these non-colors adjoin
— Tadeusz Rozewicz
Though she appeared confected of sugar and air, there was a bitter black walnut at her core.
— Lauren Groff
I was only sitting here in my white studywith the awful black words pushing me around. — Anne Sexton
Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack
Diamonds and fireflies
If they couldn't lean against Black ... — Mary O'Neill
Black drinks the sun and draws all colours into it.I am bleached white, my truant love. Come back,
and stain me with the intensity of black. — Robert Graves
Black Poetry is not for Black People ... it is for everybody
— Nikki Giovanni
Whose starboard eyeSaw chariot 'swing low'? — James Weldon Johnson
Aflame in black ecstasy, orders extinguished:after death
how will I know my love was true,
this sacrifice not an exercise in vanity? — Phan Ming Yen
This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.
— June Jordan
And this is when I knew I was black for real.This is when I knew black was a city
whose walls were constantly under siege.... — Roger Bonair-Agard
The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
— Nikki Giovanni
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
— Carl Sandburg
My heart is small, like a love of buttons or black pepper.
— S. Jane Sloat
A radiant full moon of silver hangs in the black sky, between the veils of misty clouds.
— Moonshine Noire
Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.
— Osip Mandelstam
I dared fix my eyes one instant toward glory:a black point is settled in my avid eye. — Joanna McClure
