Black Literature

Literature written by African Americans.

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The Seven Daughters of Dupree
Dominion
If I Ruled the World
People Like Us
How It Ends
Small Worlds
Isaac's Song
Zeal
Someone Like Us
Skin & Bones
Where Wild Peaches Grow
In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black, #1)
Neighbors and Other Stories
Great Black Hope
People of Means
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Color Purple
Beloved
The Bluest Eye
Kindred
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Invisible Man
The Vanishing Half
The Underground Railroad
Between the World and Me
Giovanni’s Room
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Homegoing
The Hate U Give

James Baldwin
I was far more the pragmatic American then than I am now. Now, watching my children grow, old enough to have some sense of where I've been, having suffered enough to be no longer terrified of suffering, and knowing something of joy, too, I know that we must attempt to be responsible for what we know. Only this action moves us, without fear, into what we do not know, and what we do not know is limitless. ...more
James Baldwin, Just Above My Head

Gwendolyn Brooks
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha

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