African Invitation XI

Famous quotes containing the words african and/or invitation:

    “The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.”
    —Thylias Moss, African American poet. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 1994)

    “Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)