Quicksand Environment Amanda Gorman's poetry is a

Amanda Gorman's poetry is a call to action

Lutie fully subscribes to the belief that if she follows the adages of Benjamin Franklin by working hard and saving wisely

Too--a true celebration of Black love and the profound impact of HBCUs on the community

deeply perceptive tale of what kin owes kin

the newlyweds' daughter

Quicksand Environment Amanda Gorman's poetry is aA classic novel of identity, sexuality, religion, and race by the author of Passing, hailed as "an original and hugely insightful writer" by The New York Times with an introduction by Asali Solomon, author of The Days of Afrekete "Quicksand . . . open[s] up a whole world of experience and struggle that seemed to me, when I first read [it] years ago, absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable." Alice Walker Born to a white Danish mother and a