Appendix 7 - References

Bonds, Margaret. "I Know My Mind," Six Songs on Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Edited by John Michael Cooper. Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia: Hildegard Publishing Company, 2020.
Bowden, Angela. "Responsibility Resist," UnSpoken Truth: Unmuted and Unfiltered. East Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield Press, 2021. Kindle.

Kendall, Mikkie. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot. New York: Penguin Books, 2020. Apple Books.


 

 

 

I Know My Mind by Margaret Bonds

Text by Edna St. Vincent Millay

 

I know my mind and I have made my choice;

Not from your temper does my doom depend;

Love me or love me not, you have no voice 

In this, that is my portion to the end.

Your presents and your favors, the full part you can give, you now can take away:

What lies between your beauty and my heart

Not even you can trouble or betray.

Mistake me not unto my inmost core I do desire your kiss upon my mouth;

They have not craved a cup of water more 

That bleach upon the deserts of the south;

Here might you bless me;

what you cannot do is bow me down, that have been love by you.