Arna Wendell Bontemps was an American poet and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance.
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“Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?”
Arna Bontemps
“Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.”
“How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.”
“Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.”