A Quote by Mark Helprin

From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.

Mark Helprin

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Alone Appreciated Complacency Cowardice Die Enables Face Familiarity Hardly Her Honor Individual Know Long Political Prisoner Resist Right Side Sing Singer Soldier Song Street

Quote Author

Mark Helprin
American - Novelist
Born: June 28, 1947

somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/ struggle/ hard times sing her song of life she's been dead so long closed in silence so long she doesn't know the sound of her own voice her infinite beauty she's half-notes scattered without rhythm/ no tune sing her sighs sing the song of her possibilities sing a righteous gospel let her be born let her be born & handled warmly.

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