Harlem
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
A wonderful poem by Langston Hughes, some dreams drift off with the morning mist, others come through if one persists.....
A dream differed is a dream put on hold
until the time comes for...
when I watch you
wrapped up like garbage
sitting, surrounded by the smell
of too old potato peels
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I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
Black is
Black is as beautiful as a bed of milky white clouds.
Black is as beautiful as soft as a newborn baby hair.
Black is as beautiful as standing up for what is right.
It really touched me and I am going to use it to motivate and encourage others. Some of our black brothers and sisters hate themselves because they are black.
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The instructor said,
Go home and write
a page tonight.
This poem!! I felt a tug in my heart because it was truly a story of truth from your heart! Very well expressed, and I can't say but one thing more. If we keep our ears open we learn from...
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