The Loss Of Love Is A Terrible

[w]e Have Always Resented The Natural Inclination Of Most White People To Demand Spirituals The Moment It Is Known That A Negro Is About To Sing. So Often The Request Has Seemed To Savor Of The Feeling That We Could Do This And This Alone.

Africa? A Book One Thumbs Listlessly, Till Slumber Comes.

Whatever Lives Is Granted Breath But By The Grace And Sufferance Of Death.

Quaint, Outlandish Heathen Gods Black Men Fashion Out Of Rods

Lord, I Fashion Dark Gods, Too, Daring Even To Give You Dark Despairing Features