Whitman/people

Famous quotes containing the words whitman and/or people:

“Thou who hast slept all night upon the storm,
Waking renew’d on thy prodigious pinions,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can’t understand them and they don’t know me and I don’t know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.”
—Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)