Surfing For Saras: Black Women in Webbed Worlds

Friday, November 14, 2014

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"I didn't want to write a poem that said "blackness
is," because we know better than anyone
that we are not one or ten or ten thousand things
Not one poem" - Elizabeth Alexander 

from http://www.amazon.com/The-Venus-Hottentot-Elizabeth-Alexander/dp/1555973922
Posted by Dr. D. Hill at 7:50 AM
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