Life is a poem, for some maybe even an ekphrastic; the truth is, you make of it from your own perspective and self-understanding, often it means different things in different times.
~Tshombe Sekou
Rumens & Poetics
Life is a poem, for some maybe even an ekphrastic; the truth is, you make of it from your own perspective and self-understanding, often it means different things in different times.
~Tshombe Sekou
It is my personal philosophy that writing is both a vulnerability and strength; we are exposed when we express outwardly, yet we feel a sense of confidence once we have relieved ourselves of the timorous little voice dying to roar, searching for freedom.
—Tshombe Sekou
...fear torments the mind, yet fear is a product of the mind; we are both friend and foe to ourselves, we highly intellectual beings: human beings, in all of our sophistication we are just as primitive as nature designed us.
~Tshombe Sekou
If we are ever to find the truth of things, we must first have the courage to be responsible in facing it; otherwise the lie will remain resting comfortably in our cowardice.
- Tshombe Sekou
In poetry it's more than the purgation of our soul, but the vehicle by which we leave you messages that only you can decrypt for us.
—Tshombe Sekou
"Just as an astronomer makes new discoveries within the heavens, I find just the same within myself; if not even more significant. Within every moment spent in profound rumination a new sun is born." —Tshombe Sekou
nothing has had more import than that of the human expression; you can grant a man his freedom, but to suppress his freedom to express is the greatest form of oppression. Nothings more crude and closer to the truth than poetic expression save the blues.
~Tshombe Sekou
I've been many places, none as profound and meaningful than the place I'm in now; it is clear that once you've come to understand the unknown the known becomes repose to the soul. Our love is the wardrobe of our true selves, who we are is at the core of that love--we are the pit that sprouts into newness; the very essence of what we will become.
Black history is an American history, good and bad it is a history that is weaved within the underpinnings of this country, these United States. We cannot disregard the memories from the Gold Coast, Sugar and Cotton labor, the abhorrence, the valor, the bigotry, the celebration, the apartheid and genocide, the incarcerations, and patriotisms; for it all makes us who we are now. To forget or disregard is to be a child who looses its mother; we are the pain and joy of Black American culture, divided across two nationalities of African and American.
~Tshombe Sekou
My words, poetic or otherwise, have never been more important than the wisdom of my elders, for it is their wisdom that gave my words foundation; I am soaring with the wings of my fathers, and singing with songs of my mothers.
~Tshombe Sekou
