I can sense your love,why leave me in darkness?Beguile me for your amusement,stealing my soul without kisses. You are the sun and I, the moon. Your beauty is reflected in my eyes.When we are apart, I...
Magic?" What did magic have to do with breaking into someone's store and stealing their stuff?"Don't you get it?" Peter said. "You're free now. You don't have to live by their rules anymore." Peter po...
(n.) The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.
The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man, it has created a new white man, too. No road whatever will lead Americ...
We're all astronauts, really, aren't we; interstellar astronauts, travelling so far into the blackness we can never return.
I want to be a guileless rook to discolor the blackness of all crafty human hearts
A song she heardOf cold that gathersLike winter's tongueAmong the shadowsIt rose like blacknessIn the skyThat on volcano'sVomit riseA Stone of ruinFrom burn to chillLike black moonriseHer voice fell s...
White stars don't mix with the dark blackness of the universe. If they did... everything would be grey
Let my toes teach the shore how to feel a tranquil lifethrough the wetness of sands Let my heart latch the doorof blackness, as all my pain now blue sky understands
Do not trap yourself into an owl's hooting soundwhere sad nights linger through the blackness of a hound
[whiteness] has no real meaning divorced from the machinery of criminal power. The new people were something else before they were white—Catholic, Corsican, Welsh, Mennonite, Jewish—and if all our nat...
America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.
You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets.
Or… maybe I’m not going crazy. Maybe I’m some sort of android-cyborg-clone-thing, and I’m just breaking down.I’m not sure which way is worse.Dad laughs. You’re not in your right mind, dear, he says. N...
You listen to me, and listen good! she shouted, shocking me. I am not evil because I have a thousand years of demon smut on my soul! she exclaimed, the tips of her hair trembling and her face flushed....
Black people are either threats or entertainment.
It’s a fact: black people in this country die more easily, at all ages, across genders. Look at how young black men die, and how middle-aged black men drop dead, and how black women are ravaged by HIV...
Yes, many years of oppression may have complicated things and it seems impossible for blacks to create their own means of production. But, I truly believe that we must start somewhere. We must reimagi...
What would you expect to find when the muzzle that has silenced the voices of black men is removed?
If we are to be honest with ourselves, we must admit that the "Negro" has been inviting whites, as well as civil society's junior partners, to the dance of social death for hundreds of years, but few...
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