 I could not arm me with a gun And shoot down ten of you for every one Of my black brothers murdered, burnt by you? Be not deceived, for every deed you do I could match — out-match: am I not Afric's son, Black of that black land where black deeds are...  The Voice of the Negro 1919 - Page 184by Robert Thomas Kerlin - 1920 - 188 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Michel Fabre - History - 1991 - 388 pages
...truthfully, without complexes or prejudice."23 And Leon Damas chose Be not deceived, for every deed you do I could match, outmatch: Am I not Afric's son Black of that black land where black deeds are done as an epigraph to his poem "Hiccups," which expressed disgust at Western civilization. Leopold Senghor... | |
 | Kinfe Abraham - African Americans - 1991 - 306 pages
...you for every one Of my black brothers murdered, burnt by you ? Be not deceived, for every deed you do I could match — out-match: am I not Afric's son,...Black of that black land where black deeds are done ? Claude McKay1 Once they feared the white man; now they despise him. Our judgment stands written in... | |
 | Cary D. Wintz - African American arts - 1996 - 522 pages
...murdered, burnt by you? Be not deceived, for every deed you do I could match-out-match: am I not Africa' son. Black of that black land where black deeds are...Almighty from the darkness drew My soul and said: Even though shall be a light A while to burn on the benighted earth, Thy dusky face I set among the white... | |
 | Laurence A. Breiner - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 290 pages
...an epigraph from McKay's poem of 1919, "To the White Fiends": "Be not deceived, for every deed you do / I could match - outmatch: Am I not Afric's son,...Black of that black land where black deeds are done?" Soon selections from an early version of Cesaire's masterpiece, Cahiers d'un retour au pays natal appeared... | |
 | Manning Marable - History - 2003 - 766 pages
...you for every one Of my black brothers murdered, burnt by you? Be not deceived, for every deed you do I could match — out-match: am I not Afric's son,...from the darkness drew My soul and said: Even thou shall be a light Awhile to burn on the benighted earth, Thy dusky face I set among the white For thee... | |
 | Cary D. Wintz, Paul Finkelman - African American arts - 2004 - 696 pages
...powerless pleading of Dunbar's poetry. In the middle of the poem, the tone changes to humility and calm: "But the Almighty from the darkness drew/ My soul...be a light /Awhile to burn on the benighted earth." Keller (1994) sees the poem as a tour de force of restraint: The speaker offers the specter of violence... | |
 | Claude McKay - Poetry - 2004 - 468 pages
...every one Of my black brothers murdered, burnt by you? Be not deceived, for every deed ye do I could outmatch: am I not Afric's son, Black of that black land where black deeds are done? But the Ahnighty from the darkness drew My soul and said: Child thou shall be a light Awhile to burn on the... | |
 | Kotti Sree Ramesh, Kandula Nirupa Rani - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 217 pages
...you for every one Of my black brothers murdered, burnt by you? Be not deceived, for every deed you do I could match — out-match: am I not Afric's son,...Black of that black land where black deeds are done? [SP 38]. McKay plays on two of the most prevalent stereotypes associated with blacks in the Western... | |
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