Arna Bontemps Professions : Poet Born : October 13, 1902 Died : June 4, 1973 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Arna Bontemps How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. Arna Bontemps parenthood dare parent Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky. Arna Bontemps dance dream father Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands? Arna Bontemps precious something strange lost Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun. Arna Bontemps die done sun way Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
