“Two Birds” ~ Michael Jackson
from
Michael Jackson, Dancing the Dream ~ Poems and Reflections (NY: Doubleday, 1992)

“It takes more than a horrifying trans-Atlantic voyage chained in the filthy hold of a slave ship to erase someone’s culture” ~ Maya Angelou
Malaika Mutere, Ph.D. is author of Towards an Africa-centered and pan-African theory of communication: Ubuntu and the Oral Aesthetic perspective Communicatio 38 (2) 2012: 147-163