Death
Well known in the African-American community, her funeral in Chicago in 1969 attracted over 50,000 mourners
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Such as the wreck of the Hesperus,
In the midnight and the snow!
Christ save us all from a death like this,
On the reef of Norman’s Woe!”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)
“Two graves must hide thine and my corse;
If one might, death were no divorce.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)
“... the heart monitor,
the death cricket bleeping.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)