This Is the Honey Quotes

“Stand”
― Kwame Alexander, This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets

“We’re going to Mars because it gives us a reason to change If Mars came here  it would be ugly Nations would ban together to hunt down and kill Martians and being the stupid and undeserving life forms that we are we would also hunt down and kill what would be termed Martian Sympathizers”
― Kwame Alexander, This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets

“If you cannot understand English, you will be moved out of the way. In the event of a loss, you’d better look out for yourself. Your insurance was cancelled because we can no longer handle your frightful claims. Our handlers lost your luggage and we are unable to find the key to your legal case. You were detained for interrogation because you fit the profile.”
― Kwame Alexander, This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets

“If no black boys were murdered we would have voices that speak in song and the music we’d make would birth storms We all can walk on water as long as we never said no anti-black shit If we lit a candle for every pain hurled towards the trans community whole planets would be up in smoke If we planted a tree for every word against women the ground would lose sight of the sun A dead child’s name at the top of your lungs like an earth-splitting lightning rod has the power to remember them back One in three black girls learn to swim by being chased away from the shallow end of a brown community pool Two out of five black families know death as that play cousin who sleeps over under comforters on the living room floor”
― Kwame Alexander, This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets