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Last updated on April 21, 2025.

Melvin B. Tolson

Melvin Beaunorus Tolson was an American poet, educator, columnist, and politician. As a poet, he was influenced both by Modernism and the language and experiences of African Americans, and he was deeply influenced by his study of the Harlem Renaissance.

American - Poet | February 6, 1898 - August 29, 1966

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Old men dream dreams; young men see visions.

Melvin B. Tolson

Melvin B. Tolson

A civilization is always judged in its decline.

Melvin B. Tolson

Melvin B. Tolson

When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet. — © Melvin B. Tolson

When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.

Melvin B. Tolson

Melvin B. Tolson

Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism . . . We advance.

Melvin B. Tolson

Melvin B. Tolson

The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?

Melvin B. Tolson

Melvin B. Tolson

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