Miracles Quote by June Jordan

“Shout out to all the Black writers who push the world forward by sharing the stories, lives, history, imaginations and magic of black culture.…

— Blitberry

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

— Nikki Giovanni

“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us — the poet — whispers in our…

— Audre Lorde

“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us - the poet - whispers in our…

— Audre Lorde

“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.”

— Maya Angelou

“I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as a "root,"…

— Bernice L. McFadden

“I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the…

— Audre Lorde

“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying…

— Anonymous

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we…

— Gregory Orr

“I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.”

— Lucille Clifton

“Poetry is capable of saving us.”

— Anonymous