Arna Bontemps
American poet, novelist and librarian
Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary)
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How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
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Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
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Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
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Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.
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