Black Quote by Linton Kwesi Johnson

“it is the violent poetry of times, written int he bllod of the youth”

— linda mendoza

“Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is. (1879-1958)”

— James Branch Cabell

“This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.”

— June Jordan

“it is the violent poetry of the times, writen in the blood of the youth.”

— Linda Mendoza

Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

— Anonymous

“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 am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening…

— Paul Muldoon

The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again. It was in the air somehow. That ownership of…

— Adrian Matejka

The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets.

— Hoyt W. Fuller

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

— Alice Walker

I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are still too…

— Dylan Thomas