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Ahmad Shamlou 2
Iranian Persian poet, writer, and journalist 1925–2000Related quotes
“The blood of three oppressed races runs in my veins.”
As quoted in [Paul Lafargue and the Founding of French Marxism, 1842-1882, Derfler, Leslie, Harvard University Press, 1991, 11, https://books.google.com/books?id=L_E_OR6owEEC&pg=PA11]
“I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.”
To an ambassador (1785), as quoted in The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography http://books.google.com/books?id=lWcsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA392 (1851), by Charles F. Adams, p. 392.
1780s
Context: Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.
The Performance (l. 13–16).
The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)
“There is blood in my veins
That has run clear of the stain
Contracted in so many loins.”
"Here"
Tares (1961)
“I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.”
As quoted in TIME magazine obituary, (5 April 2004) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,501040412-607849,00.html, p. 22, which noted that his great-grandfather had married the Princess of Ethiopia.
Speech in Westminster Palace Hotel (23 May 1878), quoted in The Times (24 May 1878), p. 12
1870s
“Madam, you have bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins”
Source: The Merchant of Venice