Arna Bontemps Quotes

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

Parent, Parenthood, Dare

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

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

Dance, Dream, Father