November 2010
58 posts
“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.”
– Zora Neale Hurston (via ponbop)
“He who creates the idols, never worships them…however tenderly he may have...”
– Zora Neale Hurston (via iradiate)
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Bill Boyce's Haiti Photography Blog →
Reflections of an Afro-Christian Scholar: When It... →
By Yolanda Pierce (reblogged by curate):
“I find it so fascinating that comfortable middle-class travelers are now experiencing what is a daily way of life and standard operating procedure for far too many people of color, especially black and brown men and boys. Routine frisks are the cost of “walking while black” in inner cities. The New York Times’ investigation of over 52,000 police...
“…we assume a collaboration with any blk writer/ who attempts to recreate...”
– Ntozake Shange, “takin a solo/a poetic possibility/a poetic imperative,” in See No Evil: Prefaces, Essays & Accounts, 1976-1983 (San Francisco, CA: Momo’s Press, 1984), 26-33, 27
“the most frequently overheard comment abt spell #7 when it first opened at the...”
– Ntozake Shange, “Program Note,” in See No Evil: Prefaces, Essays & Accounts, 1976-1983 (San Francisco, CA: Momo’s Press, 1984), 21-25, 23
“…there is no occupation of territory, on the one hand, and independence of...”
– Frantz Fanon (A Dying Colonialism) as quoted in Ntozake Shange, “Program Note,” in See No Evil: Prefaces, Essays & Accounts, 1976-1983 (San Francisco, CA: Momo’s Press, 1984), 21-25, 22
“…the man who thought i wrote with intentions of outdoing the white man in...”
– Ntozake Shange, “Program Note,” in See No Evil: Prefaces, Essays & Accounts, 1976-1983 (San Francisco, CA: Momo’s Press, 1984), 21-25, 21
“The show at DeMonte’s [New York City] waz prophetic. By this time,...”
– Ntozake Shange, “A History: for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf,” in See No Evil: Prefaces, Essays & Accounts, 1976-1983 (San Francisco, CA: Momo’s Press, 1984), 13-17, 16.
“Such joy & excitement I knew in Sonoma, then I would commute back the sixty...”
– Ntozake Shange, “A History: for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf,” in See No Evil: Prefaces, Essays & Accounts, 1976-1983 (San Francisco, CA: Momo’s Press, 1984), 13-17, (for @divafeminist)
Prologue:
worlds like words for a woman who is a poet and
a mother are confusing/overlapping contradictory
fatigue & exciting. between diapers, the park, the
telephone conversations with e.t. and the dollhouse
which had to be a plantation house where little black babies
rest and play between my poems. my incomplete thoughts.
thoughts i never find the ends of: lose threads on dresses, in
my...
WatchDave Chappelle. Black Bush. (for @NdidiOteh)
Christopher Nelson interviews Ntozake Shange for... →
“Sexual experimentation characterized the coming of age of postmodern black...”
– Cheryl Clarke, “After Mecca:” Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005), 104
“Shange’s for colored girls cleared space for more “colored...”
– Cheryl Clarke, “After Mecca:” Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005), 100
“In its deployment of theatre and music (R&B, jazz, salsa) ensemble...”
– Cheryl Clarke, “After Mecca:” Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005), 98
“Watching a performance [of for colored girls] one sees a collective appetite for...”
– Robert Staples, “The Myth of the Black Macho: A Response to Angry Black Feminists,” The Black Scholar, 1979
“Signifying poetry holds a special fascination for me. Probably because I could...”
– Carolyn M. Rodgers, “Black Poetry—Where It’s At,” Negro Digest, 1969
Carolyn M. Rodgers, "Black Poetry--Where It's At,"... →
“Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
– R. Kennedy (via of-squids-n-kitties)
“And that is why I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings...”
– —Elie Wiesel (from Nobel prize acceptance speech)
"ese misterio espléndido, desconocido para ti…": I... →
“And I was but a child, and you took me in your arms, gave me a home and your kiss of eternity. Who am I to forget you? Who am I to not thank you? Who am I to ignore your seed, your fruit and your prosperity? Who am I to ignore the soul you carry in your swaying hips, with the tick-tack of your…
“I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family, it says...”
– ontd_political: Bush Says the Worst Moment of His Presidency Involved Kanye West (via bowfolk)
More reminders. 