Oh, not with statues’ rhetoric, not with legends and poems and wreaths of bronze alone, but with the lives grown out of his life, the lives fleshing his dream of the beautiful, needful thing. Frederick Douglass by Robert Hayden | Poetry Foundation
Tag Archives: Frederick Douglass
They continued down a havoc of backstreets. A woman carried a tray of kale on a string over her neck, trying in vain to hawk the exhausted green leaves. Is this from a) a dystopian story about the crash of the current tech bubble and the demise of formerly fashionable neighborhoods from Brooklyn to Los Angeles?b) …