When June comes dancing o’er the death of May, With scarlet roses tinting her green breast, And mating thrushes ushering in her day, And Earth on tiptoe for her golden guest, I always see the evening when we met– The first of June baptized in tender rain– And walked home through the wide streets, gleaming … Continue reading
oh antic God return to me my mother in her thirties leaned across the front porch the huge pillow of her breasts pressing against the rail summoning me in for bed. I am almost the dead woman’s age times two. I can barely recall her song the scent of her hands though her wild hair … Continue reading
Character is power. Booker T. Washington, Educator, Orator, Author, College President Continue reading
I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try. Nikki Giovanni, Poet, Activist, Educator Continue reading
And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I’m lonely– I’ll make me a world. And far as the eye of God could see Darkness covered everything, Blacker than a hundred midnights Down in a cypress swamp. Then God smiled, And the light broke, And the darkness rolled up on one … Continue reading
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. Booker T. Washington, Educator, Orator, Author, College President Continue reading
Use what you have to run toward your best – that’s how I now live my life. Oprah Winfrey, Media Mogul, Talk Show Host, Actress, Philanthropist, Continue reading
Nothing is easy to the unwilling. Nikki Giovanni, Poet, Activist, Educator Continue reading
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time. Marian Wright Eldeman, Lawyer, Activist, Founder and CEO of Children’s Defense Fund Continue reading
Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short of urge to plead Then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart Or greater than a star; Tame wild disappointment With caress unmoved and … Continue reading
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