Mari Evans
Mari Evans
Mari Evansis an African-American poet, living in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1984 she edited one of the first critical books devoted to the work of Black women writers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 July 1923
CityToledo, OH
CountryUnited States of America
america proud spread
I'm gonna spread out over America intrude my proud blackness all over the place.
gonna proud spread
I'm/ gonna spread out/ over America/ intrude/ my proud blackness/ all/ over the place.
black born
Who can be born black and not exult!
prison made sabotage
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
memories cities opposing
For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.
mind enemy
To identify the enemy is to free the mind.
people magic singing
Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.
father iron touching
No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching.
funeral bigs dies
When I die I'm sure I will have a Big Funeral
music song sweet
I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night
simple order understanding
The not so simple Truth is that we must be psychologically free in order to resist and we must resist in order to be free, and all of this requires an understanding of what bondage has been, of what it continues to be and of its ramifications for the future.
trying who-we-are language
I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.
jewels casting brilliance
Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future
love persons whole
I will bring you a whole person, You will bring me a whole person, And we will have us twice as much, Of love and everything.