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This brings to mind a song, No Images by Nina Simone, which came from a poem by William Warin Cuney.
[Verse 1] She does not know her beauty She thinks her brown glory She thinks her brown body has no glory If she could dance naked under palm trees And see her image in the river, she would know Yes, she would know But there are no palm trees in the street No palm trees in the street And dishwater gives back no images
[Verse 2] She does not know her beauty She thinks her brown body has no glory If she could dance naked under palm trees And see her image in the river, she would know Yes, she would know, yes, she would know But there are no palm trees in the street No palm trees in the street And dishwater gives back no image
On the album Let It All Out, Nina Simone sang William Waring Cuney’s poem “No Images” in a capella. The poem won Cuney his first prize in the 1926 Opportunity Literary Contest.
As part of the Harlem Renaissance, “No Images” was a poem hailed as a lodestar for the New Nego Movement of the 1920s that pushed for “a renewed sense of racial pride, cultural self-expression, economic independence, and progressive politics.” The poem speaks to the psychological angst of African American women who perceive themselves as ugly due to their skin color as a result of the discriminatory, anti-black world they now inhabit. Waring Cuney juxtaposes her urban life with that of her ancestors, and if she had the chance to return to these surroundings she would realize her true beauty.
Writing in the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940, Lucy Kelly Hayden writes about “No Images,” stating: