Famous quotes containing the words enslaved and/or african:
“Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
—Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891)
“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)