Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, born Hubert Gerold Brown and widely known during the 1960s as H. Rap Brown, was...
Cyprian Ekwensi was a pioneering Nigerian author, pharmacist, broadcaster, and public servant. Widely regarded as a chronicler of...
bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins, was one of the most influential Black feminist thinkers, cultural critics, educators, and public intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Over a...
Paul Niger was a Guadeloupean poet, novelist, colonial administrator, and anticolonial organizer whose brief but impactful life bridged...
Édouard Glissant was one of the great Caribbean writers and thinkers of the twentieth century: a Martinican poet,...
Marcelino dos Santos was a principal intellectual and political architect of Mozambique’s liberation movement. As a poet, organizer, diplomat, Marxist thinker, and long-serving leader of FRELIMO, he transformed dispersed nationalist opposition...
António Agostinho Neto was the first president of independent Angola. He was a physician trained in Portugal, a...
“I write to tell the truth about the Black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to...
Richard Wright occupies a commanding place in twentieth-century American and African American letters. Novelist, memoirist, essayist, short-story writer, poet, political journalist, and international commentator, he made literature answerable to the lived...
“We Wear The Mask” was first published in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s collection Majors and Minors in 1895. Written...
Jessie Redmon Fauset was an editor, novelist, poet, essayist, educator, and scholar whose labor helped make the Harlem...
Paul Laurence Dunbar was a pioneering African American author who earned international recognition in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Renowned for his literary versatility, Dunbar produced a remarkable body...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
