“Black powerful womanhood of Malaika-Tamu Cooper asks to be addressed in the present, and seen in the lights of the moments of an ancient past that assembled knowledge, power, and divinity into a form of beauty that surpassed the imaginations, inspired poetry, wars within, and families. The divinity of form, the definitions sung by peoples from other worlds into this terrestial existence fell on the dark earth of its first people: the dark women. These dark skinned mothers came from the darkness of transformation walking those corridors from one world to this world. The clarity of darkness they come from, and embody is different from racial distinctions. It is the beginning of knowledge, and the relationships within Creation that become patterns, and process.
Our mothers from Africa were old, and timeless. Immersed in the timeless quality of being Age became subservient to eternity, and only slowed a body to ready it for the next transition into the the next world. These are things I learned from the mother I come from, and the women I have loved and served in my lifetime. I am Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories”
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