"Mari Evans" is 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.

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To identify the enemy is to free the mind.

If we have the Word let us/ say it/ If we have the Word let us/ be it/ If we have the Word let us/ DO.

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.

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."