Air Quote by Robert Hayden

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“This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.”

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It seemed to me as we were talking about Christ rising from the dead, the sun popped over the mountain. That was indicative of…

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Midnight Special on a sabre track movering movering, first stop Mercy and the last Hallelujah.

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As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth, as well have a hollow as a heart.

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Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.

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We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters…

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Harriet Tubman, woman of earth, whipscarred, a summoning, a shinning

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Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters pursuing and the hounds…

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Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

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Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on…

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“We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters…

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“Unable to sleep, or pray, I stand by the window looking out at moonstruck trees a December storm has bowed with ice. Maple and…

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I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.

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