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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
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Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, the time ain't long. That song is right. Something has got to change in Americaand change soon. We must help that change to come.
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America never was America to me<br/>And yet I swear this oath-<br/>America will be!
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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 lead
Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas
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