Arna Bontemps Quotes

United States, Poet
October 13, 1902 – June, 4, 1973.

Arna Wendell Bontemps (/bɒnˈtɒm/ bon-TOM[1]) (October 13, 1902 – June 4, 1973) was an American poet, novelist and librarian, and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance.

Also known as Novelist, Librarian

Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?

Arna Bontemps
- Lost
Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.

Arna Bontemps
- Done
- Die
- Sun

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

Arna Bontemps
- Dance
- Sky
- Rain
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

Arna Bontemps