An Introduction to Black Literature in America: From 1746 to the PresentLindsay Patterson Publishers Agency, 1976 - 302 pages |
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Page 120
... looked around and said : " I'm lonely— I'll make me a world . " And far as the of God could see eye Darkness covered everything , Blacker than a hundred midnights Down in a cypress swamp . Then God smiled , And the light broke , And the ...
... looked around and said : " I'm lonely— I'll make me a world . " And far as the of God could see eye Darkness covered everything , Blacker than a hundred midnights Down in a cypress swamp . Then God smiled , And the light broke , And the ...
Page 186
... looked just like " poor white trash . " Other people , black and white , said all kinds of things about his parents ... looked . Their eyes were serious , not smiling , not staring , just gloom - colored with seriousness in the mirror ...
... looked just like " poor white trash . " Other people , black and white , said all kinds of things about his parents ... looked . Their eyes were serious , not smiling , not staring , just gloom - colored with seriousness in the mirror ...
Page 231
... looked stricken and intense . " But , sir , surely you can see some promise , some little merit ? " " Well , uh , one must consider , uh , the limita- tions of your medium , uh . . . hee . " " Limitations of medium , yes , but surely ...
... looked stricken and intense . " But , sir , surely you can see some promise , some little merit ? " " Well , uh , one must consider , uh , the limita- tions of your medium , uh . . . hee . " " Limitations of medium , yes , but surely ...
Contents
Introduction Lindsay Patterson | 5 |
A Plan of Peace Office for the United States Benjamin Banneker | 17 |
Poetry | 27 |
Copyright | |
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