We must not be frightened nor cajoled/ into accepting evil as deliverance from evil./ We must go on struggling to be human,/ though monsters of abstractions/ police and threaten us. -Robert Hayden

 

We must not be frightened nor cajoled/ into accepting evil as deliverance from evil./ We must go on struggling to be human,/ though monsters of abstractions/ police and threaten us.


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It gives you hope in salvation and perspective in the life that we live today. It's nice to know there's good out there in a world full of terror and evil.

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. . . your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.

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We discussed music and singing every time our paths crossed out here.

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