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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

— Langston Hughes

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Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

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

Love is a naked shadow
On a gnarled and naked tree.

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

Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)

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