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Rhythmic Connections
- Alice Walker
Contemporary poet
and novelist, she achieved world-wide fame for her Pulitzer Prize winning
novel "The Color Purple". In her effort to bring literature to black women,
she also discovered Zora Neale Hurston, forgotten Harlem Renaissance writer,
edited an anthology of her poems and placed a memorial on her unmarked
grave.
Women
Alice Walker |
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were women then
My mama's generation
Husky of voice-Stout of
Step
With fists as well as
Hands
How they battered down
Doors
And ironed
Starched white
Shirts
How they led
Armies
Headragged Generals
Across mined
Fields
Booby-trapped
Ditches
To discover books
Desks
A place for us
How they knew what we
MUST know
Without knowing a page
Of it
Themselves
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| Romare Bearden |
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| Mark Rothko
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