Famous Black Poets Quotes & Sayings

My pond life with hydra is over; now I'm into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper.. — Munia Khan

A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power. — Vladimir Voinovich

Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Keep near to the fountain-head and with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. — Gardiner Spring

Thomas Merton wrote, "it is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not 'what he ought to be.' If we do not first respect what he is we will never suffer him to become what he ought to be: in our impatience we will do away with him altogether."50 — Eugene H. Peterson

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other. — Shirley Chisholm

To the girl
who reads by flashlight
who sees dragons in the clouds
who feels most alive in worlds that never were
who knows magic is real
who dreams

This is for you — Meagan Spooner

And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now. — Mike Myers

It's been nice to have a band and people I'm close to that I can get that understanding from and help me realize what I want to do in my life as a musician. — Blake Judd

Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble. — Eartha Kitt

It's lovely. I hate it. — Tanith Lee

I have a thing for things that last. — Criss Jami

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors. — Robert Green Ingersoll

All aspects of honor derive from honesty. A liar cannot truly be honorable, for where is the honor in deception? — Keith R.A. DeCandido

Late-night prejudice was apparently exhausting. — Chloe Neill

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.'
"I cannot give you credit for any philosophy of the kind. Your retrospections must be so totally void of reproach, that the contentment arising from them is not of philosophy, but, what is much better, of innocence. — Jane Austen