A wonderful reminder from Shel Silverstein to never let others limit your potential.
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In this captivating reading, legendary poet, activist and scholar Sonia Sanchez explores the most important question of the 21st century: What does it mean to be human?
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Before Shawna Murray-Browne’s brother was murdered, she dreamt about it - trauma from seeing Black men being killed. The integrated psychotherapist now focuses on empowering BIPOC to access caring & healing.
Spoken word meet social critique in this power piece exploring the cyclical nature of mental health challenges within the black community.
This omnibus includes Nikki Giovanni’s first seven volumes of poetry from her early years, 1967 to 1983: Black Feeling Black Talk; Black Judgement; Re: Creation; My House; The Women and the Men; Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day; and Those Who Ride the Night Winds.
Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades. These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women’s Yoga History, Stephanie Y.
Clifton & Sanchez - Mirrors & Windows 10/24/2001 at The New School, New York, NY. Moderated by Eisa Davis.