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

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Source : Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.181, University of Michigan Press

Robert Hayden

#Earth Quotes #Slavery Quotes #Summoning Quotes

“If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.”
“I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.”
“It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.”
“I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.”
“Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.”
“The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent.”
“The American future is here, and there's great news: the future votes.”

Source : "The Future Has Voted" by Rosario Dawson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.
“To change the world, we must begin with ourselves.”

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