Best Phillis Wheatley Quotes

#1. I won't let any of my friends become a fan. To me, you're either a friend or you're a fan. That doesn't mean my friends can't support me, because they all do, but they can't treat me differently than they would treat someone else. None of my friends are in awe of me.

Jeremy Lin

#2. When African slave Phillis Wheatley wrote poetry, 18 men came to assess whether that was possible.

Jacky Fleming

#3. It was unclear to him, even now, whether he had actually been physically attracted to Imogene or had simply been relieved to have someone else make decisions that he had been happy to follow.

Hanya Yanagihara

#4. Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies,
Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies:
The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays,
On ev'ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays;
Harmonious lays the feather'd race resume,
Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume.

Phillis Wheatley

#5. The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine.

Adolf Hitler

#6. Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy sideThy every action let the goddess guide.

Phillis Wheatley

#7. I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

David Attenborough

#8. Come, let us sing a psalm, and drive away the devil.

Martin Luther

#9. Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, /May be refin'd and join th' angelic train.

Phillis Wheatley

#10. In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.

Phillis Wheatley

#11. make you see double and feel single!

Douglas Hirt

#12. Rehv cleared his throat. "What book is that?"
The Moor looked up, his almond-shaped eyes focusing with a sharpness Rehv could have done without. "You're awake."
"What book?"
"It's The Shadow Death Lexicon."
"Light reading. And here I thought you were a Candace Bushnell fan.

J.R. Ward

#13. The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.

Ellie Goulding

#14. Since my return to America my Master, has at the desire of my friends in England given me my freedom.

Phillis Wheatley

#15. Position, - for the Negro to realize more deeply than he does at present the need of uplifting the masses of his people, for the white people to realize more vividly than they have yet done the deadening and disastrous effect of a color-prejudice that classes Phillis Wheatley

W.E.B. Du Bois

#16. Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade,
On that confusion which thy death has made.

Phillis Wheatley

#17. The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.

Phillis Wheatley

#18. Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity.

Clifton Fadiman

#19. May be refined, and join the angelic train.

Phillis Wheatley

#20. That alone made me want to find every Richelieu in the world and kiss them. With tongue.

Alyxandra Harvey

#21. I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems.

Robert Morgan

#22. When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

Mary Shelley

#23. Thou didst, in strains of eloquence refin'd, Inflame the soul, and captivate the mind.

Phillis Wheatley