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
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
Graves grow no green that you can use.
Remember, green’s your color. You are Spring. | Gwendolyn Brooks
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
~Gwendolyn Brooks
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">https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/p...
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">https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/p...
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">https://firsthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/07/d...
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">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147...
remembering
we were never meant to survive. | Audre Lorde https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147275/a-litany-for-survival">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147...
she’s never liked twilight, you know,
when it comes, it only confirms
we& #39;ve failed at everything
again |
Dionne Brand, Inventory
when it comes, it only confirms
we& #39;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/">https://anti-imperialism.org/2018/10/0...
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/">https://anti-imperialism.org/2018/10/0...
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">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/583...
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">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/583...
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
Riddim An& #39; Hardtimes |
Lillian Allen https://lillianallen.bandcamp.com/track/riddim-an-hardtimes">https://lillianallen.bandcamp.com/track/rid...
Lillian Allen https://lillianallen.bandcamp.com/track/riddim-an-hardtimes">https://lillianallen.bandcamp.com/track/rid...