Midterm Review as of 1-14-20

"I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul"

How do you spell Mr. S's last name?

Which of these people was a Transcendentalist?

"Most of my own poems are racial in theme and treatment, derived from the life I know."

"But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall . ."

"It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere"

Around when was the "Great Migration" taking place?

Where were the Transcendentalists based?

"I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. "

"Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place!"

"The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. "

Where do Dana and Kevin live at the beginning of Kindred?

"My soul has grown deep like the rivers."

"There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking [than the] U.S."

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"

"Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair"

What time (approximately) does Dana travel back to in Kindred?

"Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death"

" I didn’t understand [my father's] patriotism. It deeply embarrassed me."

Which of these people is NOT a character in Kindred?

Finish this line: "My soul has grown deep like the ..."

Which of these people is NOT a character in Kindred?

Which of these people was born into slavery?

Who wrote Kindred?

"Michael Jackson might have been dying to be white, but he was not dying alone."

Which of these people was NOT part of the Harlem Renaissance

"The world does not know that a people is great until [they produce] great literature and art."

Which of these were was popular first?

"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals. . . injustice"

Which of these writers went to live in the woods?

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately . . ."

“To be yourself . . . is the greatest accomplishment.”

"We can never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was "legal"

Identify the poetic technique in the following quotes. Go it?

"They have never had a bloodless revolution. . . That don't happen even in Hollywood "

"“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

"the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps . . . the independence of solitude.”

"It is a peculiar sensation. . . always looking at one's self through the eyes of others"

"We knew that we were tied to him, that his physical destruction was our physical destruction"

"“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion."

Which of these people is NOT a character in Kindred?

"Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga Still nigga, still nigga."

"Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair"

Quote ID time. What am I going to ask you to do in this section?

"“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time."

"If dreams die /Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.

Finish this line: "Let America Be America . . ."

"No great poet has ever been afraid of being himself."

"if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams . . .he will [find] success. . ."

When did slavery end in the United States?

Who is your favorite Colas?

"One ever feels his twoness,--an American, a Negro. . . two warring ideals in one dark body"

Which of these people was born into slavery?

"I just took a DNA test and I'm 100 percent that ..."

Around when did the Harlem Renaissance take place?

What city is Harlem in?

Which of these writers was MOST inspired by Henry David Thoreau?

"the Negro artist can give his racial individuality, his heritage of rhythm and warmth. . ."