Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century’s most widely read African American writers and a...
Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet “If We Must Die,” one of...
Georgia Douglas Johnson was among the earliest African American women poets to gain widespread recognition and became one of the most prominent Black women writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Although...
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or “Miss Lou” was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, activist, radio and television personality and...
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 – August 13, 1930) was a prominent African American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and...
Alex Haley is the celebrated author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). By April 1977 almost two million hardcover copies of the book had been sold and 130...
“To be Black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that...
James Arthur Baldwin was an African American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, who is considered to...
Chester Himes was an African American writer best known for his series of Harlem detective novels. In 1958 he won France’s Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. In his lifetime he published...
If you know your woman, know her rhythms, know her ways; if you paying attention to her all...
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 and The Count of Monte Cristo. Dumas published works comprise 300 volumes and...
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…
