Michael S. Harper Quotes

The responsibility to nightmare is to wake up.

A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there.

A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that sky seeking oxygen, gone into autopsy

I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.