Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
“I write to celebrate life.” “I would like to be seen as a woman whose roots go back...
Alfred Fagon was a Jamaican-born playwright, poet and actor. He was one of the most notable Black British...
Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, “even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.” You will be right. For...
About eight years ago, I discovered Waiting for the Rain by Charles Mungoshi during a visit to the...
Tiny bit of humanity, Blessed with your mother’s face, And cursed with your father’s mind. I say cursed...
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 song “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,”...
“I’ve Come to Take You Home” is one of the most significant political poems of the late twentieth...
Langston Hughes, considered the unofficial Poet Laureate of African-Americans, was a prolific writer, who published ten volumes of...
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 read. Classified as “magical realism,” the...
“A Black Wedding Song” by Gwendolyn Brooks is a brief, blessing‑like lyric that frames Black marital love as...
I had to go and see Equalizer 2 with Denzel Washington. I have been a fan of Denzel since he...
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 modernised the language to make it...
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…
