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“Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning-because that ain't the time at all...when you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.”
― A Raisin in the Sun
― A Raisin in the Sun
“Something always told me I wasn't no rich white woman.”
― A Raisin in the Sun
― A Raisin in the Sun
“Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud”
― Push
― Push
“Love buries itself in me, up to the hilt.”
― Selected Poems of James Merrill
― Selected Poems of James Merrill
“The Black homosexual is hard pressed to gain audience among his heterosexual brothers; even if he is more talented, he is inhibited by his silence or his admissions. This is what the race has depended on in being able to erase homosexuality from our recorded history. The "chosen" history. But the sacred constructions of silence are futile exercises in denial. We will not go away with our issues of sexuality. We are coming home. It is not enough to tell us that one was a brilliant poet, scientist, educator, or rebel. Whom did he love? It makes a difference. I can't become a whole man simply on what is fed to me: watered-down versions of Black life in America. I need the ass-splitting truth to be told, so I will have something pure to emulate, a reason to remain loyal.”
― Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
― Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
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