Hayden

Famous quotes containing the word hayden:

    Standing to America, bringing home
    black gold, black ivory, black seed.
    —Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

    this man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro
    beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world
    where none is lonely, none hunted, alien,
    this man, superb in love and logic, this man
    shall be remembered.
    —Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

    Voyage through death
    to life upon these shores.
    —Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)