Biography
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Born 1949, Jacqueline Amos, a Black
Poet, Artist, School Teacher, and
Published Author; Who is Jacqueline Amos?
Who is seen most frequently world wide on the Internet
A black woman, who has felt the scars of a warrior,
she states, I have felt the scars of my ancestors.
I have felt the whip of the oppressor,
they have taken my life, but my spirit
shall live beyond, the clouds of my epitaph,
I shall continue to beyond
the scars of my own demise,
Jacqueline was born in Harlem, she completed
her education, at Medgar Evers College.
I was the victim, the survivor, the back door,
but the soul who have master; the reasoning of calm.
From the School House
To The Supreme Court
To The Battle Ground
To The Battered
To The Opening
Being Black In America
To the Lynching
To the Warrior
To The University
To Woman
To The Journey
To My Fathers House

I know the black rivers, that rise upon my feet;
I know the black rivers that brought me through the gates; I know the black rivers as the black tears form upon my face; I know the black rivers that sanctified my spirit to grace;
Oh black river that lies upon my soul;
Oh black river you wear the same face as my son;
Oh black river you cleaned the toxins of my son’s soul; Never the less the carcass was dead, the soul of the repaving winds;
Oh  black rivers the cries of the marching waves;

O, Black river you herd the songs one day I shall be free;
Oh black river that lives within thee.

My mama scars, my mama’s feet, my mama Moses, who brought
me cross the rivers of Jordan, oh glory to God I cry to thee;
I bathed in the rivers of the African streams;
I built my hut with the rivers and the clay;
I looked upon the Niles, I danced upon the sea;
I marched in the Deep South’s of the black sea;
I herd the singing of the rivers; I saw the blood, march
Across the opening of the sea

Jacqueline Amos documented with the Museum
of Modern Art, 1995,  Brooklyn Museum, 1996,
and many archives,
her favorite Quote, I shall rise alone, if I must
but I shall bring some of my people home,
I am the sheep that walks towards
the light In this world order, I as women
and all women, must come together as one,