Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Carolyn Rodgers

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Carolyn Rodgers

Carolyn Marie Rodgers was a Chicago-based writer, particularly noted for her poetry. The youngest of four, Rodgers had two sisters and a brother, born to Clarence and Bazella Rodgers. Rodgers was also a founder of one of America's oldest and largest black presses, Third World Press. She got her start in the literary circuit as a young woman studying under Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks in the South Side of Chicago.

Poet | December 14, 1940 - April 2, 2010
The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on. — © Carolyn Rodgers
The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on.
My mother, religious-negro, proud of Having waded through a storm, is, very obviously, A sturdy Black bridge that I Crossed over, on.
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