![]() ![]() Following graduation form Brooklyn’s Girls High, Bennett planned to become a graphic and visual artist. ![]() Gwendolyn Bennett, best known for her striking poetry largely composed during the decade of the 1920s, was actively involved in African American culture and the arts community over twenty years. The sunflower reminds me of a sunRISE, so I couldn’t resist placing them together. I recently moved it from my home office to my work office where it hangs as you see it with a sunflower art by Ty, one of my former students. ![]() This is one of two precious gifts she sent in honor of my 1LW. The “Rise” pennant in the photo above was made by my Love Notes friend Lori-Anne C. Be sure to check out her post on “boundaries,” her one little word. My friend, Cy, also posted about her 1LW today. Īnd look down on the things that fetter me,Īnd look down upon the things that fetter me. However, Johnson’s poem speaks to the journey I’m on as an individual wrestling with and rising above personal challenges. Georgia Douglas Johnson’s poem, “When I Rise Up Above the Earth” was the first poem I ran across related to my “one little word.” Of course, I am familiar with Maya Angelou’s popular “Still I Rise,” which gives voice to a collective Black “I”–talking back to and ascending in spite of an oppressive system. ![]()
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