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Robert Hayden
5 quotes
“Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.”
Robert Hayden (1913–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Those Winter Sundays (lines 1-5), from Collected Poems (1985)
“What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?”
Robert Hayden (1913–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.”
Robert Hayden (1913–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Middle Passage (lines 15-16), from Collected Poems (1985)
“This man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world where none is lonely, none hunted, alien, this man, superb in love and logic, this man shall be remembered.”
Robert Hayden (1913–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Frederick Douglass (lines 7-11), from Collected Poems (1985)
“Oh who and oh who will sing Jesus down to help with struggling and doing without and being colored all through blue Monday? Till way next Sunday?”
Robert Hayden (1913–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday (lines 10-13), from Collected Poems (1985)