Robert Hayden Quotes

Robert Hayden was an American poet, essayist, and educator. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978, a role today known as US Poet Laureate. He was the first African American writer to hold the office. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. August 1913 – 25. February 1980
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Famous Robert Hayden Quotes

“Standing to America, bringing home
black gold, black ivory, black seed.”

Robert Hayden

Middle Passage (lines 15-16), from Collected Poems (1985)

“Oh who and oh who will sing Jesus down
to help with struggling and doing without and being colored
all through blue Monday?
Till way next Sunday?”

Robert Hayden

Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday (lines 10-13), from Collected Poems (1985)

“What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?”

Robert Hayden

Those Winter Sundays (lines 13-14)

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