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The Ways of White Folks: Stories

"I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me."

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"They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed —
I, too, am America."

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"The night is beautiful,
So are the faces of my people."

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"Way Down South in Dixie
(Break the heart of me)
They hung my black young lover
To a cross roads tree."

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"While over Alabama earth
These words are gently spoken:
Serve — and hate will die unborn.
Love — and chains are broken."

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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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"Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed —
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above."

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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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"I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek —
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak."

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"O, let America be America again —
The land that never has been yet —
And yet must be — the land where every man is free."

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"My motto,
As I live and learn,
is:
Dig And Be Dug
In Return."

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"Democracy will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear."

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