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How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
Arna Bontemps
Tell
,
Anyone
,
Act
Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
Arna Bontemps
Lost
,
Strange
,
Forgotten
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
Arna Bontemps
Dreams
,
Rain
,
Dance
Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.
Arna Bontemps
Done
,
Die
,
Sun
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Biography
Nationality:
American
Type:
Poet
Born:
October 13
, 1902
Died:
June 4
, 1973
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