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...
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Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
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 and see Equalizer 2 with Denzel Washington. I have been a fan of Denzel since he played Steve Biko in Cry Freedom. I remember...
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...
10 Iconic Poems by Maya Angelou Every Black Person Should Know
Maya Angelou lived many lives in her 86 years. She was an author, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, singer, and...
Langston Hughes: Poet Laureate of the Black Race
I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head, and joy like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream,...
Phillis Wheatley: The first published African-American female poet
Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American female poet. She was born in West Africa around 1753, before she was kidnapped and sold into the...
I Am Accused Of Tending To The Past by Lucille Clifton
i am accused of tending to the pastas if i made it,as if i sculpted itwith my own hands. i did not.this past was waiting...