"Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true."
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"When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul."
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"I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!"
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"O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe."
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"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."
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"Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die?"
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"Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying."
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"Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow."
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"I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe."
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"Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear."
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"A dream deferred is a dream denied."
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"Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale."
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"America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!"
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"Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now -- For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair."
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"LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words."
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"Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life."
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"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?"
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"We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter."
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"There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath - America will be! I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe."
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"I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face."
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