Black Literature

Literature written by African Americans.

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Dominion
If I Ruled the World
People Like Us
How It Ends
The Two Lives of Sara
Small Worlds
In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black, #1)
Bones at the Crossroads (Blood at the Root, #2)
Zeal
Isaac's Song
Great Black Hope
The Man Who Lived Underground
Someone Like Us
See How They Run
Nightbloom
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
Native Son

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

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

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