Quotes About Phillis Wheatley

#1. 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

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

Jacky Fleming

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

Phillis Wheatley

#4. Her eyes showed that though she may have decided to regret him, as long as he was in her presence she could not.

Mark Helprin

#5. I would've blown away every last runner that time. Because at the end of this finish line wasn't a trophy - it was Macallan.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#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. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Phillis Wheatley

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

Phillis Wheatley

#11. You don't know if he's pissed or just laughing at you.

Graham McNamee

#12. [A] great embarrassing fact ... haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

David Graeber

#13. The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence.

Sara Gruen

#14. It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Horace

#15. 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

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

Phillis Wheatley

#17. Great issues develop from small beginnings.

Norman Vincent Peale

#18. You say it best, when you say nothing at all.

Alison Krauss

#19. He settles on the Green Animals Topiary Garden in Portsmouth.

Gabrielle Zevin

#20. Most of the time for movies and stuff, with the exception of Jeff Nichols, who I've worked with a few times, you just don't know people too well. Everyone is cordial and nice and some people are very genuinely friendly, but once the movie is over you never see them again.

Michael Shannon

#21. I'm a feminist because I believe in women ... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.

Sheryl Sandberg

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

Phillis Wheatley

#23. 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