ENG FAME STUDY

"losing time being lazy, sleeping when hungry, shouting when burdened,"

What does passing mean?

the speaker in "Boujuee" is called exactly and what else?

Why does Louis think his wife was unfaithful?

By wondering "what happens to a black girl who was too anxious to ever feel like magic" what is Nichelle critiquing?

What recurring self-definition phrase does Giovanni use in the poem?

Who does the poet say is responsible for killing Nkrumah and Patrice Lumumba?

What has Nikki Giovanni done perhaps more than any living poet?

What is the narrator's mother's name in "Sweetness"?

What literary and cultural movement was Nikki Giovanni associated with?

What did McGruder say gave him a new sense of purpose after becoming nearly burnt out on the comic strip?

What factor has made Nikki Giovanni so iconic for more than five Decades now?

what was welfare at one point

What's notable about the full name of the main character?

What's unique about the covers of volumes of Nikki Giovanni's poetry in comparison to most other volumes?

what stereotype does the speaker in "Boujee" not want to be associated with?

Where did Nikki Giovanni receive coverage early on that made her more widely known?

When Boondocks first appeared, why did the comic strip make some people upset? Why did some people really like it?

what is the title of Margret Walkers most anthologized poem? when and where was it published?

what word means the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases & clauses to create effect?

"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."

In a word, what is the key, most compelling topic in "Friends with Benefits" by Jae Nichelle?

what is the name for the kind of reading that involves an array of processes, including inferential, and insight?

"Let a / bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second / generation full of courage issue forth;"

What was Aaron McGruder's major in undergrad?

What black artform did McGruder most frequently critique? What black company did he most frequentlycritique?

What was McGruder's most important means of critiquing the negative effects of hip hop on black youth?

apartheid was a system of institutionalized racial segregations that existed in south Africa for over 40 years.

What place, which appear less frequently in contemporary black women's poetry?

what is Hughes most anthologized poem?

Black women are expected to carry a pen

What is the name of the novel from which "Sweetness" is excerpted?

What problem does the narrator have with her daughter right after birth?

What is Nikki Giovanni's most famous poem?

The speaker's ability to move across what two things makes her movement seem sci-fi and fantastic?

What's one facial expression that Huey Freeman never makes?

What is the name of the Boondocks creator

What famous poem does "Ego-Tripping" connect to in the opening?

"We / Lurk late. We / Strike straight."

What recurring type of character comes up in Morrison's works that's displayed in "Sweetness"?

"I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep."

what kind of culture has made it increasingly harder for many people to develop reading skills?

"We die soon."

Similar to Giovanni and Hughes what continent does Jordan reference in the poem?

"But all the time / I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in thedark"

What are three of the most famous poems by black women that circulate widely through performance?

What popular black male verbal tradition does "Ego-Tripping" signify on and revise?

what did McKay write his poem in response to?

where was Langston Hughes when he 1st composed his most anthologized poem

What literary movement was Jordan a part of that encouraged poets to directly engage in politics in their poems?

"47th Street in Chicago and Lenox / Avenue in New York and Rampart Street in New / Orleans..."

The daughter in this story sends her mother money, but what gives her the sense that her daughter does not like her?

what is the title of Claude McKays most anthologized poem? when and where was it first published?

What is the most well-known panel from The Boondocks?

Why does the Narrator think Louis actually felt bad about leaving?

what 2 things does it take to become an expert reader?

What is the title of Gwendolyn Brooks's most anthologized poem? When and where was it first published?

What is the narrator's daughter's name in "Sweetness"?

People are inclined to view poetry as a serious or solemn art form, but Nichelle uses __ to disrupt that view.

what is the reoccurring 2 word phrase that Browne uses to indicate society, white people and black people communicating

"I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln / went down to New Orleans..."

"Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack / Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!"

did Mahogany L. Browne Write "Black Girl Magic".