How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
- Arna Bontemps
Parent, How, Schoolteacher, Critic
Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.
- Arna Bontemps
Die, Some, Rising, Beating
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
- Arna Bontemps
Rain, Sky, Fathers, Tread
Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
- Arna Bontemps
Lost, Precious, Some, Precious Thing
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