A leading American author, poet, and early civil rights activist.. author poet folklorist and civil rights leader
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He that never thinks can never be wise. 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
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it. Go to Quote / Comment
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read. 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