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angelina weld grimke

American journalist, teacher, playwright and poet who came to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance. She was one of the first women of color to have a play publicly performed.

Not to be confused with her great-aunt Angelina Emily Grimké, an abolitionist author.


“At April'Toss your gay heads,Brown girl trees;Toss your gay lovely heads;Shake your brown slim bodies;Stretch your brown slim arms;Stretch your brown slim toes.Who knows better than we,With the dark, dark bodies,What it meansWhen April comes a-laughing and a-weepingOnce againAt our hearts?”
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