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- My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,
- I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream,…
- Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that…
- For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.
- Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want…
- We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
- Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem…
- I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug…
- Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And…
- I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown…
- Life dosent frighten me at all.
- You and I By Henry Alford My hand is lonely for your clasping, dear; My ear is tired waiting for your call. I want your…
- Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle