Arna Bontemps quotes

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

Arna Bontemps

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Occupation: American Poet
Born: October 13, 1902
Died: June 4, 1973
Quotes count: 4

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