poetry is not a luxury - Audre Lorde

it‘s within the deep places of everyone of us where we hold an incredible reserve of creativity and power/ unrecorded and unexamined emotion and feeling.

„The woman‘s place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it‘s dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.“

By becoming more in touch with one owns ancient, non-european conciousness of living, one learns more and more to cherish ones feelings.
Poetry in this context becomes the revelation or distillation of experience.

For women, poetry is not a luxury, It is a vital necessity of their existence.
Womens hopes and dreams made into -> language (poetry) -> idea -> action
Manifestation through Poetry!

„The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us - the poet- whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.“

Thoughts were always declared over feelings!
„...feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets.“