Phillis Quotes

#1. Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.

John Milton

#2. 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

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

Jacky Fleming

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

Phillis Wheatley

#5. For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.

Benjamin Tucker

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

Phillis Wheatley

#7. 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

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

Phillis Wheatley

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

Phillis Wheatley

#10. We do not need to succumb to the temptation to meet such a violation with retaliation. The only way to heal this hurt is to give voice to what ails us. It is only in this way that we can keep our pain and loss from taking root inside us. It is only in this way that we have a chance for freedom.

Desmond Tutu

#11. 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

#12. But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

Milan Kundera

#13. In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.

Joseph Jarman

#14. Is there a cookie at the end of this lecture? ... I got a cookie after all ... Dear god, the cookie was poisoned.

Ilona Andrews

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

Phillis Wheatley

#16. I've never asked for a happy ending

Lauren Kate

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

Phillis Wheatley

#18. I don't really enjoy filming.

Bill Forsyth

#19. 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

#20. I never had a cat again. I still like cats, though I decided at
the time that that poor little cat who climbed the tree and never
returned would be my first and last cat. I couldn't forget that
little cat and start loving another.

Haruki Murakami