… regard to the liberated territories; we know that there are committees and conferences sitting learnedly upon these … wheel of history turns. We are stunned to find British soldiers and Greek patriots shooting each other down in the … been two great lacunae at precisely the two most important points. Although nothing whatever can be done save by the …
Poetry
… Marvel or Cherry Vanilla? It takes 206 bones to make a complete human skeleton, but it has to be the right bones. … & sigh & flutter and will not pay attention. We with our bodies are here to serve them, and so it is not their contempt …
… Independently, they had concluded that the South might be coming out of a tense and turbulent era in black-white … found elsewhere.” I don’t know what Governor Holton’s audience made of his speech, but the response to my article … of black families living in poverty decreased by five points in the South, while it was increasing everywhere …
Essays
… of the tiny West African country. In those days, I welcomed just about any and all inquiries that helped me deepen … to salvage, and we lived there until she finished her studies that summer. Over the next few years, we moved from … to convince my new country of my body’s value—and that it also deserved peace? When my father and uncles passed down …
… Unfortunately, it has already been told—more than twice. He points no moral, he says. His account indeed is pointless. … on the aspiring ‘Nineties, already an assured literary and commercial success. Many a reader, fascinated by its nervous … is a post-mortem examination. It tells ye what a counthry died iv. But I’d like to know what it lived iv.” Mr. …
… role. Still, in the midst of our same-colored clothes, our common smell, and our exasperating lack of individuality; … “So she wasn’t dead.” “Dead?” “You said before that she died before you started school. You spoke of her funeral, … the veins stuck out and I held it over the water.” “Funerals. They are the most conventional and comical ceremony we …