Go, smiling souls, your new-built cages break, In heaven you'll learn to sing, ere here to speak,... Nor let the milky fonts that bathe your thirst Be your delay; The place that calls you hence is, at the worst, Milk all the way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the brunt of the ...storm, if we can only be the means of making a break in that wall of public opinion which lies right in the way of woman's rights, true dignity, honor and usefulness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In marble halls as white as milk, Lined with a skin as soft as silk,... Within a fountain crystal-clear, A golden apple doth appear. No doors there are to this stronghold, Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then comes my fit again. I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,... As broad and general as the casing air. But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break in order to survive. This astonishes me, and what excites me ...I write about. Everyone of us is a wonder. Everyone of us has a story.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fe...ar, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear ... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond k...nowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"That's where I reckon Santa Claus comes in To be our parents' pseudonymity... In Christmas giving, so they can escape The thanks and let him catch it as a scapegoat...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »