Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
After four score years of freedomOur so-called leaders sayThe the race has made great progressAnd we face the...
Alexandre Dumas is a celebrated French author best known for his historical adventure novels, including The Three Musketeers...
Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr. is an awarding-winning African-American author of ten volumes of poetry, three children’s books, and six non-fiction works. Troupe was California’s first official poet laureate. In 2010 Troupe...
Alice Ruth Moore, educator, author and social activist, was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the...
If the muse were mine to tempt it And my feeble voice were strong, If my tongue were...
I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night I...
Where have you gone with your confident walk with your crooked smile why did you leave me when...
Mari Evans was an African-American poet, writer, and dramatist, whose work has appeared in more than one hundred...
Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Babatunde Soyinka, born 13 July 1934, is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, and two...
“A free black mind is a concealed weapon!” Samuel Greenlee, Jr. was an African-American novelist, poet, screenwriter, journalist,...
[dropcap size=small]E[/dropcap]arl Lovelace is an award-winning Trinidadian novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer. Lovelace is special among...
[dropcap size=small]L[/dropcap]ucy Terry Prince, known as Lucy Terry, (c. 1730–1821) was brought to Rhode Island from Africa. Her future husband purchased her freedom before their marriage in 1756. She composed a...
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…
