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.
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Countee Cullen
The image of God cut in ebony.
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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?
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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.
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Charles Lamb
The best way to uncolor the Negro is to give the white man a white heart.
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Panin
More Quotes By Charles Lamb
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.
