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Department of African American Studies
Yale University
PO Box 208212
New Haven, CT 06520-8212

Telephone and Fax 
Phone: 203.432.1177
Fax: 203.432.2102

Email Address
afam.studies@yale.edu

I used to want the words, "She tried," on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."
  ~ Katherine Dunham

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
  ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."
  ~ Miles Davis

“We are each other’s magnitude and bond.”
  ~ Gwendolyn Brooks

"Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it."
  ~ James Baldwin

The emotional, sexual and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: "It's a girl."
  ~ Shirley Chisholm

Wade in the water, Wade in the water, children. Wade in the water, God's goin' to trouble the water.
  ~ African American Spiritual

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
  ~ Satchel Paige

Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco in Conversation with Elizabeth Alexander Inaugural Poet (2009)

Ezra Stiles College Master's Tea

Richard Blanco and Elizabeth Alexander

February 05, 2013
9 Tower Parkway
4pm

This is Richard Blanco’s first post-inauguration public appearance.

Read more at: "Two inaugural poets on one stage: Richard Blanco and Elizabeth Alexander at Yale" - Yale News (Jan. 31, 2013)

 


Sponsored by Ezra Stiles College, the Office of the President, the African American Studies Department, and the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program.