As quoted by Jerry Rubin in recounting his visit with Manson in We Are Everywhere (1971)
“They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed —
I, too, am America.”
"I, Too, Sing America," in the magazine Survey Graphic (March 1925); reprinted in Selected Poems (1959)
Source: The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003), p. xi
“I used to be called Captain Chainsaw, now I am Nero, setting the Amazon aflame.”
On 20 August 2019 https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/politica-br/amazonia-bolsonaro-diz-que-passou-de-capitao-motosserra-a-nero, joking about the Amazon rainforest wildfires. Bolsonaro says Brazil lacks resources to fight Amazon fires https://www.ft.com/content/8f9ded3a-c4c8-11e9-a8e9-296ca66511c9. Financial Times (22 August 2019).
Source: for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 210.
O, Porcupine.
Brother, Sister (2006)
As quoted in Los Angeles Times (24 September 1995)
