Robert Hayden Quotes (11 Quotes)

Night is juba, night is congo.

. . . your presence was shore where I restedreleased from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spokewith my true voice again.

We must not be frightened nor cajoledinto accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human,though monsters of abstractionspolice and threaten us.

It gives you hope in salvation and perspective in the life that we live today. It's nice to know there's good out there in a world full of terror and evil.

He criticized baseball's racial policies after he stopped playing, especially how blacks were forced to travel. He even criticized some black players for not standing up for their rights.

Sundays too my father got up earlyand put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,then with cracked hands that achedfrom labor in the weekday weather madebanked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him.

My poetry is a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.

I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.

He was his own man. Because he was his own man, he was able to accomplish what he was able to accomplish in the civil rights movement.

We discussed music and singing every time our paths crossed out here.

. . . voyage through deathto life upon these shores.