A leading American author, poet, and early civil rights activist.. author poet folklorist and civil rights leader
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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
Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous. Go to Quote / Comment
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language. 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
Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty.... Go to Quote / Comment