Robert Hayden Quote

Standing to America, bringing home
black gold, black ivory, black seed.


Middle Passage (lines 15-16), from Collected Poems (1985)


Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.

Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.

Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.

Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.