Shouts of dead men break upon the night.
(Nocturne Of The Wharves)
More Quotes from Arna Bontemps:
I have sown beside all waters in my day. I planted deep, within my heart the fear That wind or fowl would take the grain away. I planted safe against this stark, lean year.Arna Bontemps
Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.
Arna Bontemps
Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
Arna Bontemps
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
Arna Bontemps
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
Arna Bontemps
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Night QuotesBased on Keywords: shouts
But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.
Peter Bogdanovich
I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Bob Geldof
Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work.
John Kluge