"Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read."

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Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

Jupiter Hammon

“The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.”

Source : The Progressive, October 1955.
“Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.”
“I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.”
“I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.”
“Until the day I die, I will be pulling for Ned Colletti.”
“If you eat enough books, you start pooping out words.”
“I didn't think too much of killing individual people. I use to think of killing the human race sometimes.”
“I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.”

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