John Henrik Clarke
I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.
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Poetry is about the grief...Back in the 1950s and '60s...If you are going to build something...I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove...I don't want to talk about negative, dark things...Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time...