Arna Bontemps
Arna Bontemps
Arnaud "Arna" Wendell Bontemps was an American poet, novelist and librarian, and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth13 October 1902
CountryUnited States of America
dance dream father
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
american-poet beating
Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.
american-poet wandering
Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
parent dare critics
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.