Thread by @GeeQ27, If You Come Softly | Audre Lorde Bring me all of your [...]

If You Come Softly | Audre Lorde

Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamers,
Bring me all of your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world. | Langston Hughes

I have been thinking about this Audre Lorde poem for 3 days now.

Graves grow no green that you can use.
Remember, green’s your color. You are Spring. | Gwendolyn Brooks

"But she fights, and has fought, according to her lights and the lenience of her whirling-place."

~Gwendolyn Brooks

Dionne Brand

Even the Gods | Nicole Sealey

It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care
to act, it starts when you do
it again and they said no,
it starts when you say We
and know you who you mean, and each
day you mean one more. https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/piercylowroad.html

Lucille Clifton

strategize your plans.
call upon your history.
prepare your long game.
learn and share.

Dionne Brand

My grandmother used to say you should wear a maljo blue near to your chest to ward off whatever. | Dionne Brand

Dreams Before Waking | Adrienne Rich http://firsthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/07/dreams-before-waking.html

So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive. | Audre Lorde https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147275/a-litany-for-survival

"If I am peaceful in this discomfort, is not peace/ is getting used to harm." | Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand

she’s never liked twilight, you know,
when it comes, it only confirms
we've failed at everything
again |
Dionne Brand, Inventory

Look here Karl Marx
the apocalyptic vision of amerika!
Workers rise and win
and have not lost their chains
but swing them
side by side with the billyclubs in blue
securing Wall Street
against the striking students. | Audre Lorde https://anti-imperialism.org/2018/10/07/the-workers-rose-on-may-day/

Audre Lorde: The Workers Rose on May Day

[Originally written in 1973 by Audre Lorde, this poem—alternatively known as “Postscript to Karl Marx”—encroaches on the reality of the modern Labor Aristocracy in the imperialist core …

https://anti-imperialism.org/2018/10/07/the-workers-rose-on-may-day/

They worked
ten days a week
and were only paid for five
They worked
They worked
They worked
and they died
They died broke
They died owing
They died never knowing
what the front entrance
of the first national city bank looks like. | Pedro Pietri https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58396/puerto-rican-obituary

Worked for a day in the sun that never came...for an hour of pension & pennies that slipped into her dress pocket with the daily car fare | Dolores Kendrick