"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
"They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house."
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Source: Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.22, University of Missouri Press
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