Enslaved African

Famous quotes containing the words enslaved and/or african:

    I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s;
    I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    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)