February 2012
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so Bill Moyer/Rita Dove compiled a list of young poets to watch so here’s my...
– even with my name spelled wrong… i feel loved :)
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Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.
– Oprah Winfrey
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She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of...
– Gloria Naylor, Mama Day
She must be talking about my girlfriends.
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January 2012
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#dear twitter: “they appear to glory in their chains
– James Baldwin
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MY LIFE IS A TYPO
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Poems: Rosehips & Pied Piper (Audio) →
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#oh twitter: i have looked for love in the hands of men with no arms.
– @MoBrowne
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I don’t have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people,...
– Eubie Blake
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O, God. Let us love, like they love…
– Aracelis Girmay
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If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just...
– Sojourner Truth
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and then
your skin, so close to the
brittle bone; your hair is a
ghost town haunted by his
name; or maybe, just maybe,
you are exorcising a demon —
it smells like motown, it is an
honest thing. here, you will
know…everything the marrow
desires.
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Ask me a question…Poetry, Life, Writing, Love…Bad Girls Club, Love...
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pith
i am writing. waiting for my soul to catch up with my thoughts.
i think in iambic pentameters, haiku and pantoum. but i live in
brooklyn. spread my self across a man’s hands and wait for his
prayers. wait for my soul to catch up with the prayers of man
that has no god. my god…there is something beautiful about
a silent prayer. the mouth turned up, the eyelids closed. the lips
...
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I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve...
– Billie Holiday
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And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.
– Toni Morrison
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Art is an elastic sort of love.
– Josephine Baker
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If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.
– Alice Walker
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
– Zora Neale Hurston
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