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Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

10 best books like Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women (Maya Angelou): Some Soul to Keep, Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems, We Speak Your Names: A Celebration, Ain't Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice, The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, Love, Revolutionary Petunias, Ain't I a Woman! A Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World, The Black Poets

Some Soul to Keep
AuthorJ. California Cooper
ISBN0312193378
From the moment I finished my first J. California Cooper book I knew she would be one of my favorite authors. Since finishing my second book, I'm sure she's one of my favorites! Her books are so real that from page one you are hooked into the story. I have found myself talking to friends about characters from...
Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
AuthorSonia Sanchez
ISBN0807068535
This didn't really work for me. There is a lot of rich imagery, sexual and earthy, but it felt like it was written for the sake of the imagery, and if you asked her what the poem meant after she wrote it, she'd have to make it up on the spot, because it didn't mean anything when she wrote it, it just sounded cool....
We Speak Your Names: A Celebration
AuthorPearl Cleage
ISBN0345490274
For centuries, African American women have been remaking the world, giving testament to the power of hope, courage, and resilience. But it took the inspired generosity of Oprah Winfrey to honor fully the many gifts of sisterhood. For three amazing days–from May 13 to 15, 2005–a distinguished...
Ain't Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice
AuthorApril Sinclair
ISBN0380727943
Jean "Stevie" Stevenson, the indomitable heroine of "Coffee Will Make You Black," is back -- somewhat older and wiser, with some experience and a college degree -- diving headfirst into the hot tub, free love, yoga, and vegetarian lifestyle of 1970s San Francisco. In this liberating new world of raised...
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
AuthorLangston Hughes
ISBN0679883479
This book first appeared in 1932. It is still a great read for all ages today. Langston Hughes made a huge impact on my life because he was anthologized often in my literature books.

Here is a famous one:

"Dreams"

Hold onto dreams
For if dreams die
Life is like a broken-winged...
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
AuthorDavid Levering Lewis
ISBN0140170367
What is a Renaissance? What makes up a Renaissance and how is it sustained? Is it artists, musicians, inventors, and other gifted people all thinking the same way and moving the same way? Or is it similar ideas expressed in different ways? The common goal that African-American people came together and...
Love
AuthorPablo Neruda
ISBN0786881488
Poems from the Film Il Postino. The poems collected in this book are at the heart of the film Il Postino, a cinematic fantasy spun from an apocryphal incident in the life of the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, Pablo Neruda. Together they show why many consider Neruda to be the finest love poet of the century....
Revolutionary Petunias
AuthorAlice Walker
ISBN0156766205
Alice Walker's poems are magically simple. Some witty, some sad, while others just reflective of Walker's youth but all reminiscent of times lost but remembered!

"And for ourselves, the intrinsic
“Purpose” is to reach, and to remember,
and to declare our commitment to all
...
Ain't I a Woman! A Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World
AuthorIllona Linthwaite
ISBN0517093650
Most people who are going to find this book probably have at least a cursory background in women/race/class studies, and I don't think this book's poems offers many new perspectives from those fields. However, what this book does offer is a plethora of wonderful voices and words from around the world...
The Black Poets
AuthorDudley Randall
ISBN0553275631
"The claim of The Black Poets to being... an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be included because it is the root and inspiration of later, literary poetry. Not only does this book present the...
The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott
AuthorJill Scott
Writing poems and keeping journal since 1991, Jill Scott now shares her personal poetry collection in The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours. Praised for her earthy, honestly erotic, soulful and very real lyrics, Jill Scott explores all the flavors of life, love, and self.

Of her music, Jill...
The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
AuthorNikki Giovanni
ISBN0060724293
This omnibus covers Nikki Giovanni's complete work of poetry from 1967–1983. THE COLLECTED POETRY OF NIKKI GIOVANNI will include the complete volumes of five adult books of poetry: Black Feeling Black Talk/Black Judgement, My House, The Women and the Men, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, and Those Who...
Yesterday, I Cried
AuthorIyanla Vanzant
ISBN0684867486
“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah Winfrey

National Bestseller!

What is the lesson in abuse, neglect, abandonment, rejection? What is the lesson when you lose someone you really love? Just what are the lessons of life's hard times?
...
Rosie's Curl And Weave
AuthorRochelle Alers
ISBN0312968280
ROSIE'S CURL AND WEAVE: Four Novellas

STEP INSIDE FOR A DAY OF BEAUTY, LAUGHTER...AND LOVE.

Whether you want a cut, weave or braid; a facial, manicure, or massage; there's always a helping hand-and a sympathetic ear-at Rosie's Curl and Weave on 125th Street in Harlem. And sometimes,...
Tears for Water
AuthorAlicia Keys
ISBN0399152571
How do I put this? I love Alicia Keys. I love her music. She is a lovely and talented woman. A humanitarian and writes against how the media exploits women. She is an academy award winner several times over and she is musically talented and educated. This book, however, was an extreme disappointment to...
If This World Were Mine
AuthorE. Lynn Harris
ISBN0385486561
Four friends, all graduates of Hampton Institute, keep a collective journal they call "If This World Were Mine," and share their personal diaries each month at a gathering filled with humor, gossip, and affirmation. The four group members are as different as the seasons, yet they all share a love of...
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