Black hair Quote by A Tribe Called Quest

Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.

— Margaret Atwood

“Poems are bullshit unless they are teeth or trees or lemons piled on a step. Or black ladies dying of men leaving nickel hearts…

— Amiri Baraka

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

— Maya Angelou

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

— Rick Fox

You see Ive written like a million poems hoping that somehow maybe someway youll jump out of the page and be closer to me…

— Rudy Francisco

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

— Anonymous

If you like my poems let them walk in the evening, a little behind you

— e. e. cummings

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got…

— Sylvia Plath

I wanted to be a poet. I fell in love with poetry around eight years old, but not through literature. Instead, it came through…

— Jason Reynolds

Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody

— Nikki Giovanni

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

— Bernie Taupin