Gwendolyn B. Bennett Quotes

• Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

  Gwendolyn B. Bennett

  Music, Poetry, Silence

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• I want to feel the surging
  Of my sad people's soul
  Hidden by a minstrel-smile.

  Gwendolyn B. Bennett

  People, Soul, Want

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• I want to hear the chanting
  Around a heathen fire
  Of a strange black race.

  Gwendolyn B. Bennett

  Race, Fire, Singing

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• All eager-lipped I kissed the mouth of Death.

  Gwendolyn B. Bennett

  Death, Mouths

  Gwendolyn Bennett, “Sonnet 1”

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