Quotes Flashcards
“A great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept melting there slowly all day long…”
August Wilson- Sonny’s Blues
“He lay there, one hand between his legs staring at the frail sanctuary of his wife.”
James Baldwin “Going to meet the man”
“I told him if I had the tools I could go out here and find me four or five fellows and open up my own shop instead of working for Mr. Olowski..”
August Wilson- Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
“God a funny ass muthafucka.”
Katori Hall - The Mountaintop
I don’t rhyme for the sake of riddlin
Public Enemy- Don’t Believe the Hype
“They hated him, and this hatred was blacker than their hearts, blacked than their skins, redder than their blood , and harder by far, than his club. Each day, each night, he felt worn out, aching, with their smell in his nostrils and filling his lungs, as though he were drowning- drowning in niggers….”
James Baldwin Going to Meet the Man
“These places of possibility within ourselves are dark because they are ancient and hidden.”
Audre Lorde- Poetry is not a luxury
“Who knew death would be so beautiful? Almost make a man wanna die.”
Katori Hall- the mountaintop
“I had suddenly found myself in a dark room filled with poisonous cottonmouths.”
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
People must be taught to trust true scientists (knowers,diggers, oddballs) and that the holiness of life is the constant possibility of widening the consciousness.”
Amiri Baraka Revolutionary Theatre
“It’s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from going under”
Grandmaster Flash- The message
“It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves. Then too, you’re constantly being bumped against by those of poor vision. Or again you often doubt you really exist.”
Ralph Ellison- Invisible Man
“For women the poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence…”
Audre Lorde - Poetry is not a Luxury
“It’s none of your business. You don’t know anything except for what’s there for you to see. An act. Lies. Device. Not the pure heart, the pumping black heart. You don’t ever know that. And I sit here, in this buttoned up suit, to keep myself from cutting all your throats.”
Amiri Baraka- The Dutchman
“It’s time to teach the deaf, the dumb, the blind/ that black on black crime only shackles and binds/ you to a doom, a date worse than death/ but there’s still time left.”
Queen Latifah- the evil that men do
