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- This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get…
- Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you…
- These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.
- What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
- Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the…
- 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…
- Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
- 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…
- What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up - like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore - And then…
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