A Poet To His Baby Son by James Weldon Johnson,
Tiny bit of humanity, Blessed with your mother’s face, And cursed with your father’s mind. I say cursed with your father’s mind, Because you can...
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Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
James Weldon Johnson: Author of “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing”
James Weldon Johnson was an African-American writer, who distinguished himself in civil rights, diplomacy, education, journalism, law, literature, and music. In 1900, Johnson wrote the...
“I’ve come to take you home”: A Tribute to Sarah Baartman by Diana Ferrus
“I’ve Come to Take You Home” is one of the most significant political poems of the late twentieth century. The poem—an act of restoration and...
10 Poems By Langston Hughes You Should Know
Langston Hughes, considered the unofficial Poet Laureate of African-Americans, was a prolific writer, who published ten volumes of poetry. One of Hughes’s most widely anthologized...
Magical quotes from ‘The Famished Road’ by Ben Okri
The Famished Road by Ben Okri, won the 1991 Man Booker Prize. The novel has the most beautiful beginning of any novel I have ever...
A Black Wedding Song
“A Black Wedding Song” by Gwendolyn Brooks is a brief, blessing‑like lyric that frames Black marital love as an act of resistance and a form of spiritual weaponry in a hostile world. Drawing on...
Ten ‘Black Body’ Quotes from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World And Me”
I had to go see Equalizer 2 with Denzel Washington. I have been a fan of Denzel since he played Steve Biko in Cry Freedom....
Ten Thought-Provoking Quotes from “The Mis-Education of the Negro”
The following quotes are adapted from The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson, widely recognised as the Father of Black History. I have...
Listen Children: Seven Poems by Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) was a prolific and widely respected African-American poet. Clifton was the first author to have two...
Sterling Allen Brown: Harlem Renaissance Poet
“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a [Black]. What the qualities of life were. With their...