An Introduction to Black Literature in America: From 1746 to the PresentLindsay Patterson Publishers Agency, 1976 - 302 pages |
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Page 142
... waiting for Jesus to come to me . The preacher preached a wonderful rhyth- mical sermon , all moans and shouts and lonely cries and dire pictures of hell , and then he sang a song about the ninety and nine safe in the fold , but one ...
... waiting for Jesus to come to me . The preacher preached a wonderful rhyth- mical sermon , all moans and shouts and lonely cries and dire pictures of hell , and then he sang a song about the ninety and nine safe in the fold , but one ...
Page 164
... waiting for Max to tell him what to do with it ; and it made him hate himself . An organic wish to cease to be , to stop living , seized him . Either he was too weak , or the world was too strong ; he did not know which . Over and over ...
... waiting for Max to tell him what to do with it ; and it made him hate himself . An organic wish to cease to be , to stop living , seized him . Either he was too weak , or the world was too strong ; he did not know which . Over and over ...
Page 178
... waiting to be vanquished in the third act . Mamma had experience with this sort of thing . All my brothers had finished Booker T. before me . Not that I was alone in my disappointment . Many of my classmates felt it too . I probably ...
... waiting to be vanquished in the third act . Mamma had experience with this sort of thing . All my brothers had finished Booker T. before me . Not that I was alone in my disappointment . Many of my classmates felt it too . I probably ...
Contents
Introduction Lindsay Patterson | 5 |
A Plan of Peace Office for the United States Benjamin Banneker | 17 |
Poetry | 27 |
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