While over Alabama earth
These words are gently spoken:
Serve — and hate will die unborn.
Love — and chains are broken.


"Alabama Earth (at Booker Washington's grave)," from the anthology Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers (1941), ed. Arna Bontemps.

Langston Hughes Quotes

While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve — and hate will die unborn. Love — and chains are broken.

While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve — and hate will die unborn. Love — and chains are broken.

While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve — and hate will die unborn. Love — and chains are broken.

While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve — and hate will die unborn. Love — and chains are broken.