Kamau Brathwaite
May 11, 1930 - February 4, 2020
Quote from Poem "Negus"
I
must be given words so that the bees
in my blood's buzzing brain of memory
will make flowers, will make flocks of birds,
will make sky, will make heaven,
the heaven open to the thunder-stone and the volcano and the un-
folding land.