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Identify the title for the quote:  We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, “Good-morning,” and he glittered when he walked. And he was rich–yes, richer than a king– And admirably schooled in every grace: . . .

Name the title for the quote:   The wayfarer,   Perceiving the pathway to truth,   Was struck with astonishment.   “Ha,” he said,   “I see that none has passed here   In a long time.”   Later he saw that each weed   was a singular knife.   “Well,” he mumbled at last,   “Doubtless there are other roads.”  

Identify the title for the quote: I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,– When he beats his bars and he would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings– I know why the caged bird sings.

Identify the title of the quote: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore– And then run?

Name the title:Hoarse, booming drums of the regimentLittle souls who thirst for fight,These men were born to drill and die.The unexplained glory flies above them,Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom–A field where a thousand corpses lie . . .Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and die.Point for them the virtue of slaughter,Make plain to them the excellence of killingAnd a field where a thousand corpses lie.

A young man who is trying to recover from violence he had experienced and decompress mentally and spiritually by being in nature in this way.

Identify the character: He is constantly moving to different places in his wagon, earning what he can repairing items for people. He lives in his wagon. When he meets a woman at a farm where he stops for directions, he lies to her to get her to feel sorry for him and give him work. He discards the flowers he is given by the woman and throws them on the road, keeping the pot so he can sell it.

Identify the title for the quote: She tried not to look as they passed it, but her eyes would not obey. She whispered to herself sadly, “He might have thrown them off the road. That wouldn’t have been much trouble, not very much. But he kept the pot,” she explained. “He had to keep the pot. That’s why he couldn’t get them off the road.”

Identify: The period of the 1920s until the mid-1930s saw an explosion of black culture in the creative activities: art, music, writing, dance, photography. The center for most of the black artistic activity was in one section of the country, which gave its name to the movement, although the black creative influence could be found in other geographic areas. 

Identify the person: The wife of a famous literary person, this woman also wrote a novel as well as painted. She and her husband were associated with the Roaring Twenties and the decade after the end of World War I. She met her husband when he was stationed in Montgomery as a young soldier in 1917.