Arna Bontemps Quotes

• How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

  Arna Bontemps

  Parent, Parenthood, Dare

  Arna Wendell Bontemps (1973). “The Old South: "A summer tragedy" and other stories of the thirties”, Dodd Mead

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• Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

  Arna Bontemps

  Dance, Dream, Father

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