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James Baldwin
Richard Wright
Ralph Elison
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Countee Cullen
James Weldon Johnson |
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| Authors from the Harlem Renaissance |
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Notes on a Native Son
Go tell it on the Mountain |
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Go Tell it On the Mountain
James Baldwin |
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Richard Wright
(1908-1960) |
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What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode? |
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"Montage of a Dream Deferred"
Langston Hughes |
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Characters:
Janie Crawford
Nanny
Joe (jody) Starks |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale-Hurston |
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Characters:
Janie Crawford
Nanny
Joe (jody) Starks |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale-Hurston |
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I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind
And did He stoop to quibble could tell why
The little buried mole continues blind,
Why flesh that mirrors Him must some day die,
Make plain the reason tortured Tantalus
Is baited by the fickle fruit, declare
If merely brute caprice dooms Sisyphus
To struggle up a never-ending stair.
Inscrutable His ways are, and immune
To catechism by a mind too strewn
With petty cares to slightly understand
What awful brain compels His awful hand.
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:
To make a poet black, and bid him sing! |
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"Yet Do I Marvel"
Countee Cullen |
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Once riding in old Baltimore,
Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,
I saw a Baltimorean
Keep looking straight at me.
Now I was eight and very small,
And he was no whit bigger,
And so I smiled, but he poked out
His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."
I saw the whole of Baltimore
From May until December;
Of all the things that happened there
That's all that I remember. |
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| The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man |
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James Weldon Johnson
(1871-1938) |
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