Identify the character: This husband does not understand tha…

Identify the character: This husband does not understand that his wife needs to have more emotional and spiritual support than he can give her with his focus on the farm and cattle. He is a good man who is just clueless in the relationship. He dismisses the one gift she has by telling her to grow apples instead of flowers, something that would be of value.

Identify the author: This writer spent his childhood moving…

Identify the author: This writer spent his childhood moving often as his mother got work as a maid or cook. He had an uneven education but could read the write. His Mississippi birthplace and the southern states where they moved were segregated so that he could not use public libraries, but he knew he wanted to learn. He was able to get books from a public library in Memphis when he was a young man by using a white man’s library card. His story of the fear and violence of his youth is told in his autobiographical work Black Boy.

Identify the title: At stake is the survival of our civiliza…

Identify the title: At stake is the survival of our civilization and the habitability of the Earth. . . .This too is a moral moment, a crossroads. This is not ultimately about any scientific discussion or political dialogue. It is about who we are as human beings. It is about our capacity to transcend our own limitations, to rise to this new occasion. To see with our hearts, as well as our heads, the response that is now called for. This is a moral, ethical and spiritual challenge. We should not fear this challenge. We should welcome it. We must not wait.

Identify the character: “She drew her shoulders up and sucke…

Identify the character: “She drew her shoulders up and sucked in her breath with the pure pleasure of being alive, and just at that moment she happened to glance at a face just a few feet from hers. It was a boy with shaggy black hair, in a convertible jalopy painted gold. He stared at her and then his lips widened into a grin. slit her eyes at him and turned away, but she couldn’t help glancing back and there he was, still watching her. He wagged a finger and laughed and said, “Gonna get you, baby,” and turned away again without Eddie noticing anything.”

Identify the author: This Black writer is often claimed by A…

Identify the author: This Black writer is often claimed by Alabama because he was educated at Tuskegee although he was born in Oklahoma. He is recognized as the author of an important novel of the mid-twentieth century Invisible Man. His contribution elevated the status of Black characters in the literary scene. In 1999 his novel Juneteenth was published posthumously.

Identify the title: I have ridden in your cart, driver, wave…

Identify the title: I have ridden in your cart, driver, waved my nude arms at villages going by, learning the last bright routes, survivor where your flames still bite my thigh and my ribs crack where your wheels wind. A woman like that is not ashamed to die. I have been her kind.

Identify the title: “You weren’t being smart, were you, boy?…

Identify the title: “You weren’t being smart, were you, boy?” he said, not unkindly. “No, sir!” “You sure that about ‘equality’ was a mistake?” “Oh, yes, sir,” I said, “I was swallowing blood.” “Well, you had better speak more slowly so we can understand. We want to do right by you, but you’ve got to know your place at all times. All right, now, go on with your speech.”