Frank Marshall Davis Quotes

• I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain people…. As one who believes in freedom and democracy for all, I honor the Red nation.

  Frank Marshall Davis

  Believe, Russia, People

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• Ideas rise with new mornings but never die.

  Frank Marshall Davis

  Morning, Ideas, Dies

  Frank Marshall Davis, John Edgar Tidwell (2002). “Black Moods: Collected Poems”, p.11, University of Illinois Press

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• Night is a curious child, wandering
  Between earth and sky, creeping
  In windows and doors, daubing
  The entire neighborhood
  With purple paint.

  Frank Marshall Davis

  Children, Night, Sky

  Frank Marshall Davis, John Edgar Tidwell (2002). “Black Moods: Collected Poems”, p.128, University of Illinois Press

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• Robert Whitmore
  died of apoplexy
  when a stranger from Georgia
  mistook him
  for a former Macon waiter.

  Frank Marshall Davis

  Georgia, Stranger, Former

  Frank Marshall Davis, John Edgar Tidwell (2002). “Black Moods: Collected Poems”, p.50, University of Illinois Press

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