Author: Yusef Komunyakaa

Quotes

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

- Yusef Komunyakaa

Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

- Yusef Komunyakaa

I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

- Yusef Komunyakaa

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

- Yusef Komunyakaa

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