Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
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...
“To be Black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.” In his phenomenal book, Dreams From...
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...
If you know your woman, know her rhythms, know her ways; if you paying attention to her all these years, you will know how she comes and goes, how she slips...
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...
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…
