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Emily Eich
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“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent…they begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.”
— Aug 18, 2025 05:44PM
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Emily Eich
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“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.”
— Aug 31, 2025 09:47AM
Emily Eich
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“The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.”
— Aug 31, 2025 09:44AM
Emily Eich
is on page 182
“Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales?
If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.”
— Aug 30, 2025 10:17AM
If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.”
