Not for myself I make this prayer But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.
-
Countee Cullen
The image of God cut in ebony.
-
Thomas Fuller
O black and unknown bards of long ago How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How in your darkness did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre?
-
James Weldon Johnson
In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
-
Charles Lamb
The best way to uncolor the Negro is to give the white man a white heart.
-
Panin
More Quotes By Thomas Fuller
A stumble may prevent a fall.
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
