These poems are lovingly composed to pay homage to our ancestral matriarchs; our mothers who endured the Middle Passage only to bore their owners’ lash and abuse, and the 21st-century black women who have said, “ENOUGH!” Shedding the oppressive garments of the past, they are breaking glass ceilings and knocking down doors to reclaim their time and stand in their power!  WE REFUSE TO REMAIN SILENT SO THAT OTHERS CAN BE COMFORTABLE.  As was written in the book of Numbers, the daughters of Zelophehad are coming for their stuff.