“Cortez is an energy, a nourishment, a Black Nation song.” —Gwendolyn Brooks
“Her poems pulsate with a certain rawness that is sometimes bitterly angry but always eloquent, and the results are relentlessly powerful.” —Gloria Naylor
“Cortez is an energy, a nourishment, a Black Nation song.” —Gwendolyn Brooks
“Her poems pulsate with a certain rawness that is sometimes bitterly angry but always eloquent, and the results are relentlessly powerful.” —Gloria Naylor