Jayne Cortez Quotes

• Find your own voice & use it, / use your own voice & find it.

  Jayne Cortez

  Creativity, Voice, Singing

  Jayne Cortez (2002). “Jazz fan looks back”, Hanging Loose Pr

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• I am essence of Rose Solitude
  my cheeks are laced with cognac
  my hips sealed with five satin nails
  I carry dreams and romance of new fools and old
  flames
  between the musk of fat
  and the side pocket of my mink tongue.

  Jayne Cortez

  Dream, Flames, Essence

  Jayne Cortez (2002). “Jazz fan looks back”, Hanging Loose Pr

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• In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet.

  Jayne Cortez

  Black, Trying, Jazz

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