A leading American author, poet, and early civil rights activist.. author poet folklorist and civil rights leader
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The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy. Go to Quote / Comment
If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser. Go to Quote / Comment
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. Go to Quote / Comment
Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity." Go to Quote / Comment
Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty.... Go to Quote / Comment