Original oil painting on canvas.

1 of 1. No prints produced.

Size: 48 × 36 in

“I love you for your brownness

And the rounded darkness of your breast

I love you for the breaking sadness in your voice

And shadows where your wayward eye-lids rest.

Something of old forgotten queens

Lurks in the lithe abandon of your walk

And something of the shackled slave

Sobs in the rhythm of your talk

Oh, little brown girl, born for sorrow’s mate

Keep all you have of queenliness

Forgetting that you were once were slave

And let your full lips laugh at Fate!”

— Excerpt from “To A Dark Girl,” a poem by Gwendolyn B. Bennett

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