“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
Source : Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.360, Thomas Hardy
“There is a time to take a stand and there is a time to take your leave.”
“The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.”
Alain LeRoy Locke
Writer
Arna Bontemps
Poet
Claude McKay
Writer
Countee Cullen
Poet
Jean Toomer
Poet
Langston Hughes
Poet
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Poet
W. E. B. Du Bois
Historian
Zora Neale Hurston
Anthropologist