🌱 “hope is invented every day,” james baldwin
🌱 “this is poetry as illumination…
for it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are, until the poem, nameless and formless-about to be birthed, but already felt…
for within structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive,” audre lorde
🌱 poetry as “the tools with which I made a small opening, and the means by which I moved forward,” carl phillips
🌱 “poetry is a political action undertaken for the sake of information, the faith, the exorcism and the lyrical invention, that telling the truth makes possible,” june jordan
🌱 “and where that language does not yet exist, it is our poetry which helps to fashion it.
poetry is not only dream or vision, it is the skeleton architecture of our lives,” audre lorde
J. YURU ZHŌU 