Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him.
[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns. - Robert Hayden
[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.
- Robert Hayden
Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's… - Robert Hayden
Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's…
Midnight Special on a sabre track movering movering, first stop Mercy and the last Hallelujah. - Robert Hayden
Midnight Special on a sabre track movering movering, first stop Mercy and the last Hallelujah.
We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstract… - Robert Hayden
We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstract…
Harriet Tubman, woman of earth, whipscarred, a summoning, a shinning - Robert Hayden
Harriet Tubman, woman of earth, whipscarred, a summoning, a shinning
I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99. - Robert Hayden
I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.
As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth, as well have a hollow as a heart. - Robert Hayden
As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth, as well have a hollow as a heart.
It seemed to me as we were talking about Christ rising from the dead, the sun popped over the mountain. That was indicative of Christ rising - a new … - Robert Hayden
It seemed to me as we were talking about Christ rising from the dead, the sun popped over the mountain. That was indicative of Christ rising - a new …
Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather… - Robert Hayden
Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather…
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