In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
David Henrie Interview: "There’s Someone out There That’s Got My Eye, but We’re Just Seeing Where It Goes" (26 January 2015) Smashing Interviews Magazine https://smashinginterviews.com/interviews/actors/david-henrie-interview-theres-someone-out-there-thats-got-my-eye-but-were-just-seeing-where-it-goes
The Poet Answered
Literary Lapses (1910)
The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)
Context: When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man in this country before the nations in the UN. You can take it before the General Assembly. You can take Uncle Sam before a world court. But the only level you can do it on is the level of human rights. Civil rights keeps you under his restrictions, under his jurisdiction. Civil rights keeps you in his pocket. Civil rights means you’re asking Uncle Sam to treat you right. Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth. And any time any one violates your human rights, you can take them to the world court.
Original: (it) Se c'è una sola persona che ha il diritto di scrivere la storia della tua vita, quella persona sei tu: scrivila prepotentemente.
Source: prevale.net
2000s, To Live Beyond Our Fear (2007)
Context: The thing that I want you all to remember: please, please, don’t base your vote, this time, on fear. Base it on possibility. Think. Listen. The game of politics is to make you afraid so that you don’t think. And what we need right now isn’t political rhetoric, it isn’t game-playing. We need leadership; we need people with judgment; we need decent people, people with common sense, people with strong family values. People who understand the world.
