African Burial Ground

Famous quotes containing the words african, burial and/or ground:

    “If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.”
    —White South African proverb.

    “On the beach at night,
    Stands a child with her father,
    Watching the east, the autumn sky.

    Up through the darkness,
    While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading,
    Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “I feel ruefully sure, also, that one must be at least one sort of fool to rush in over ground so well trodden by the angels.”
    —J.L. (John Langshaw)