Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.Alfred Tennyson
“Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: to make a poet black, and bid him sing!”
American poet (1903–1946), a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance; his first collection, Color, appeared in 1925.
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