“Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.” IfsMenMadeEarthLawFatherGivenNationsWhiteRaceBloodChangedBrokenEmptyRegardSeedsHungryChosenSpotsPenaltiesWhite ManCovenantCainOrdinancesHungry ManAfrican Race Author:Brigham Young
“Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we had done a brave thing... Or a man could feel that we had made this city in the desert and that it was a fake thing and that our lives were empty lives, and that we were the contemporaries of the jack rabbits.” MenFeelsMadeDoneCitiesOur LivesStreetsStandingEmptyBraveEdgesDesertFakeStillnessRabbitsDwellingEmpty Life Author:William Saroyan
“In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.” MadeBigsEyeStuffTreeSingingBirdEmptyClockStaringHallsPensShoreTidesBlankTrafficRottenOrnamentsMeasuringPavementRailway Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender