Naked woman, black woman
Dressed in your color that is life, in your form that is beauty!
I grew up in your shadow. The softness of your hands
Shielded my eyes, and now at the height of Summer and Noon,
From the crest of a charred hilltop I discover you, Promised Land
And your beauty strikes my heart like an eagle's lightning flash.


Shadow Songs (1945).- Black Woman

Léopold Sédar Senghor Quotes

Naked woman, black woman Dressed in your color that is life, in your form that is beauty! I grew up in your shadow. The softness of your hands...

Naked woman, black woman Dressed in your color that is life, in your form that is beauty! I grew up in your shadow. The softness of your hands...

Naked woman, black woman Dressed in your color that is life, in your form that is beauty! I grew up in your shadow. The softness of your hands...

Naked woman, black woman Dressed in your color that is life, in your form that is beauty! I grew up in your shadow. The softness of your hands...