“American philosopher W.E.B. Du Bois repeatedly emphasizes that the nation owes its Black citizens three things: “the free right to vote, [the right] to enjoy civic rights, and [the right] to be educated.”11 Du Bois demands that “[n]egroes must insist continually, in season and out of season, that voting is necessary to modern manhood … and that black boys need education as well as white boys.” Du Bois focuses on these three rights”
“Ambergris" This body, tapped of every drop of breath, In vast corruption of its swollen pride, Proclaims itself the very whale of death; Yet, I believe, the hand that plumbs its side Will gather dissolution's sweet increase. Exquisite fern of death--in nature, ambergris. Meanwhile, thinking of love, I have been dressed For such destruction. Though it surely break, Come pluck the deep wild kernel of my breast, That wafer of devotion, and partake Of its compacted sweetness, till it bring The sould to rise upon its fleshly wing. If gentle heart be scorned, in scorn of it I shall immerse it in such bitterness, Bather every pulse in such an acid wit, That from my mammoth, cold, and featureless Event of age, my enemied will flee, Whereas my friends will stay and pillage me. Stanley Kunitz, (W. W. Norton & Co., 2000)””
“An analysis of nutritional and metabolic data by Jon Pangborn, Ph.D., a well-known nutritional biochemist affiliated with the Great Smokies Diagnostic Laboratories in Asheville, North Carolina, found that the metabolism of methionine is the “most frequently impaired or disordered amino acid” among 1,500 individuals with food and chemical intolerances, degenerative diseases, neuromuscular dysfunction, and mental diseases.””
“Womanly, a shadow combedHer dark tremendous hair beyond the violet borderOf my sleep. Strong passionate hands I had, but could not findThe red position of her heart, not the subtle orderOf her lips and breasts, nor the breathing cities of her mind.”
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“Meanwhile. thinking of love, I have been dressedFor such destruction. Though it surely break,Come pluck the deep wild kernel of my breast,That wafer of devotion, and partakeOf its compacted sweetness, till it bringThe soul to rise upon the fleshly wing.”
“Last night was beautiful, the sky filled with stars and the Milky Way looking like a scarf of sequins.””
“There was a stir of music,Mixed with flowers, in her blood;A swift impulsive balmFrom obscure roots;Gold bees of clinging lightSwarmed in her brow.Her throat is full of songs,She hums, she is sensible of wingsGrowing on her heart.She is a tree in springTrembling with the hope of leaves,Of which the leaves are tongues.”