Thomas Shadwell
English poet and playwright (1642-1692)
Arna Wendell Bontemps(October 13, 1902 – June 4, 1973) was an American poet, novelist and librarian, and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance.
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
American poet, novelist
Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.
American poet, novelist
Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
American poet, novelist
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
American poet, novelist