Black Writers Shorts

Description: "Black Words Build Worlds"

Description: harlem renaissance

Description: Revolutionary African American women and writers in a natural hair afro, surrounded with powerful words

Description: Black History Icons - Men Writers Edition Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois

Description: James Baldwin Hope Style Retro Poster Art

Description: Celebrate female Black authors and their contributions to literature. Zora Neale Hurston Maya Angelou Octavia Butler Toni Morrison

Description: Black History Month: Toni Morrison, “You are your best thing ... You are” -- A digital interpretation of Toni Morrison A Literary Luminary and Cultural Icon with her quote “You are your best thing ... You are” above on a dark (Knocked Out) background

Description: Zora Neale Hurston portrait and quote: “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”

Description: Bell Hooks portrait and quote: “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

Description: James Baldwin and his great quote for writers: Write a sentence clean as bone. Great gift for struggling wordsmiths. Great inspirational gift for writers of all ages.

Description: Black History Month: Toni Morrison, “You are your best thing ... You are” -- A digital interpretation of Toni Morrison A Literary Luminary and Cultural Icon with her quote “You are your best thing ... You are” above on a dark (Knocked Out) background

Description: A Little Bird by Alexander Pushkin: In alien lands I keep the body Of ancient native rites and things: I gladly free a little birdie At celebration of the spring. I'm now free for consolation, And thankful to almighty Lord: At least, to one of his creations I've given freedom in this world!

Description: Richard Wright quote: And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him.

Description: James Baldwin portrait

Description: Alexander Pushkin quote: “But whom to love? To trust and treasure? Who won’t betray us in the end? And who’ll be kind enough to measure Our words and deeds as we intend?”

Description: Langston Hughes quote: Let the rain kiss you Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops Let the rain sing you a lullaby

Description: James Baldwin portrait and quote: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

Description: Portrait of James Baldwin smoking and quote: Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.

Description: Alexander Pushkin quote: I was born for the peaceful life, for rural quiet: the lyre's voice in the wild is more resounding, creative dreams are more alive. To harmless leisures consecrated, I wander by a wasteful lake and far niente is my rule. By every morn I am awakened unto sweet mollitude and freedom; little I read, a lot I sleep, fugitive fame do not pursue. Was it not thus in former years, that I spent in inaction, in the shade, my happiest days?

Description: Langston Hughes quote: To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.

Description: Walter Anthony Rodney, Guyanese historian's quote from his seminal historical work "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa".

Description: James Baldwin portrait and quote: I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Description: Langston Hughes quote: An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Description: James Baldwin portrait and quote: The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it

Description: James Baldwin portrait and quote: The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Description: James Baldwin quote

Description: James Baldwin portrait

Description: Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.

Description: Alexander Pushkin quote: “To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender— As storms refresh the fields of spring.”

Description: Walter Anthony Rodney, Guyanese historian's quote from his seminal historical work "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa".

Description: James Baldwin portrait and quote: The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it

Description: Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and author of I, Too, The Weary Blues, The Negro Speaks of Rivers and The Dream keeper and Other Poems.

Description: Alexander Pushkin quote: It's a lucky man who leaves early from life's banquet before he's drained to the dregs his goblet - full of wine; yes, it's a lucky man who has not read life's novel to the end, but has been wise enough to part with it abruptly...

Description: I Loved You by Alexander Pushkin: I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let it cause you more distress, I do not want to sadden you again. Hopeless and tongue-tied, yet I loved you dearly With pangs the jealous and the timid know; So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely, I pray God grant another love you so.

Description: Alexander Pushkin quote: “Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.”