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| Langston Hughes was mentor and friend to Gwendolyn Brooks and Alice Walker |
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| During her career as a prominent poet, Gwendolyn Brooks stayed with Harper and Row so that she could reach a wider audience and make as much money as possible from her poetry. |
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| The Street was first novel by a black woman to sell more than a million copies |
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| In 1902, Ma Rainey is credited with taking the blues from the private arena to public stage |
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| You remember the children you got that you did not get |
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| Well son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair |
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| Frustrated by daily assault of racism, Johnson slaps ______ |
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| Preface to a twenty volume suicide note |
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| Zami: A New Spelling of my Name |
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| How Long Has the Train Been Gone |
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| African American Studies at IU |
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| Community, Functionalism and commitment |
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| three basic characteristics which make black art revolutionary. |
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| There for we say the blues are invalid because they teach us resignation |
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| Ron Karenga: Black cultural Nationalism |
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| Poems are BS unless they are teeth or trees or lemon piled on the steps |
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| Amiri Baraka: Black art: Mute Matter Given Force and Function |
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| Poetry is the way we help give names to the nameless so that it can be though |
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| Andre Lorde: Poetry is not a luxury |
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| was the first African American studies program in the country |
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| The Man who lived Underground |
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| the public of native son Richard wright changed the face of American culture in the post-world war II era |
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| 1954 Brown v board of education desegregated schools |
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| Richard wright mentored Margret Walker |
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| The Montgomery Bus Boycott accord in 1959 |
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| The man who live underground classified as a ________ short story |
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| The invisible man can be classified as a ________ novel |
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| Hard bop would be classified under _______ |
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| Mrs. Coley’s three flat brick isn’t here anymore |
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| Let a new earth rise. Let another World be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky |
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| Margret Walker:“For my People” |
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| I want you to overcome ‘em with yeses. Undermine ‘em with grins |
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Realism: depicts things as they appear.
Naturalism: the principle that the world can be understood without recourse or super natural explain. |
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| Boca's A Daughter Geography |
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| Colson Whitehead was not admitted into a creative writing course |
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| Railroad Bill, Poppa Chicken, Jigga and Weezy are Bad Man Figures |
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| I am a reape. (Eoho!) All my oats are cradled. But I am to fatigued to bind them |
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| We are so hungry for the morning/we're trying to feed our children the sun |
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| Summers Words for a Sistuh Addict |
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| ______ was one of the founders of Third World Press |
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| Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, TN |
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| Sonia Sanchez was evicted from the Nation of Islam in 1975 |
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| In Flag Wars, ______ is able to avoid selling her house until her death |
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| I wish them/ cramps/ I wish them a strange town/and the last tampon |
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| Lucille Clifton: "Wishes for Sons" |
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| I say that only call muthafuckas |
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| Carolyn Rodgers: "The Last MF" |
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| I Want Aretha to Set This to Music |
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