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"Your verses, my dear, are real poetry. They have..."the authentic fire." Archibald Grimke to his daughter, Angelina Weld Grimke

I'm sitting in the parking lot waiting for my gf to get out of class. She dislocated her left shoulder and it's finals week, in a week. Can't drive and only using one arm, being in pain while trying to study for finals ? #blackfeminist #NationalPoetryMonth #blackwomen #poetry

Brotherhood ~ Georgia Douglas Johnson

"Shall we not make
The bleak way for each other's sake
Less rugged and unkind?"

http://www.thespectrum.com/story/opinion/blogs/educationitself/2015/09/12/poem-d... #NationalPoetryMonth #blackfeminist #feminism #poetry

"Without women writers, the Harlem Renaissance would have been a bleaker place. Though not blindingly vivid, the color they added completed the total spectrum." #blackfeminist #blackwomen #feminism #woc

Watching Needful Things and catching up.

"Directly comparing Johnson, Dunbar-Nelson and Grimke with male poets...would force them into a competition whose rules were formulated without them in mind...both subtle and blatant, women were penalized for their gender." #blackfeminist #blackwomen #feminism #queer #woc

"...Zora Neale Hurston used false birthdays, she was actually an additional decade older..." #blackfeminist #queer #poetry #history

I got a few books in and couldn't decide where to start. Since it's #NationalPoetryMonth, I picked the book on Harlem Renaissance and #blackwomen that write #poetry. #blackfeminist #feminism #writer.

The images at the bottom remind me of Kara Walker's silhouettes.