Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.
“I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.”
“Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.”