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Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

~Arna Bontemps

Topics: Beneath Dance Dreams Fathers Jungle Keep Kept Let Us Our Our Dreams Rain Sky Tread Us

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How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

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Topics: Act Anyone Colored Critic Dare How Literary Me Merely Parent Tell

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Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?

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Topics: Forgotten Lands Lost Precious Some Something Strange Thing Wandering

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Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.

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Topics: Beating Die Done Rising Some Sun Way Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 13th, 1902

Died: June 4th, 1973

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