African American Poets Quotes & Sayings

Race is a biased concept; we are in fact all Africans. — Ben Tolosa

You are not merely finding a physical release, you are coming into a new realm, coming into heaven, coming into him, becoming him. — Jasinda Wilder

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty. — Michael Novak

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements. — Aberjhani

Jesus is just a word I use to swear with. — Richard Harris

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers. — Ralph Ellison

As Rank put it, man yearns for a "feeling of kinship with the All." He wants to be "delivered from his isolation" and become "part of a greater and higher whole." The person reaches out naturally for a self beyond his own self in order to know who he is at all, in order to feel that he belongs in the universe. Long before Camus penned the words of the epigraph of this chapter, Rank said: "For only by living in close union with a god-ideal that has been erected outside one's own ego is one able to live at all. — Ernest Becker