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
american-poet wandering
Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
american-poet beating
Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.
dance dream father
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
parent dare critics
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.