About Mari Evans: Mari Evans is an African-American poet, living in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1984 she edited one of the first critical books devoted to the work of Black women writers.
To identify the enemy is to free the mind.
I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.
When I die I'm sure I will have a Big Funeral. Curiosity seekers... coming to see if I am really Dead or just trying to make Trouble.