Death
West died on August 16, 1998, at the age of 91. At her death, she was one of the last surviving members of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“You mustn’t be afraid of death. When this ship sailed, death sailed on her.”
—Charles Larkworthy. Denison Clift. Anton Lorenzen (Bela Lugosi)
“In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)
“I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.”
—John Webster (1580–1625)