Memory Belongs

Famous quotes containing the words memory and/or belongs:

“His memory is like wares at the auction—going, going, and anon it will be gone.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“He touched the soil, caressing its grains between his fingers: “I am this: this earth here, and I have it in my blood. Look at my color; it seems as though the earth faded onto me and onto you too. This country belongs to the black man and each time others tried to take it away from us, we mowed down injustice with our machetes”.”
—Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)