Jean Toomer (1894–1967) American poet and novelist
from "November Cotton Flower"
Poems from Cane (1923)
Source: Nature and Selected Essays
Jean Toomer (1894–1967) American poet and novelist
from "November Cotton Flower"
Poems from Cane (1923)
“Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Angelina Grimké (1805–1879) American abolitionist and feminist
Addressing an abolitionist meeting in Philadelphia, May 14, 1838, as a mob howled outside, throwing bricks and stones into the building, as quoted in [Todras, Ellen H., Angelina Grimké: Voice of Abolition, https://books.google.com/books?id=-S8ZAQAAMAAJ, 1999, Linnet, 978-0-208-02485-5, 3]
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
Sunset on the Bearcamp, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Prince (1958–2016) American pop, songwriter, musician and actor
Call My Name
Song lyrics, Musicology (2004)