Hughes slides

Slide 1

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• "Hold on to dreams for if they die, life is like a broken-winged bird that can not fly. Clinging to dreams because when they go life is a desert field frozen in the snow. "
• Legenda: "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”

Slide 2

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• "Well, son, I'll tell you:Life for me was not a crystal staircase.
• There were nails and splinters
• axes and bumpy,
• and whether no carpet on the floor naked.
• But all the time
• I continued to rise,
• I reached and landings,
• and I turned corners
• and sometimes I walked in the dark
• where was no glimmer of light.
• So, boy, do not go back.
• Do not stop on the steps
• because it is arduous ascent.
• Do not fall now,
• because I go forward, my love
• and continuing to rise
• and the life was not for me
• a crystal staircase."
• Legenda: "I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”

Slide 3

• "I've known rivers:.
• I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than
• flow of human blood in human veins !.
• My soul has become deep like the rivers.
• I bathed in the Euphrates that the dawns were young.
• I built my hut on the bank of the Congo that I rocked her to sleep.
• I saw the Nile and the pyramids of rise
• I listened to the singing of the Mississippi
• when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans,
• and I saw his golden brown muddy course at sunset.
• I've known rivers:
• Ancient rivers dark.
• My soul has become deep like the rivers"
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• Legenda: “Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop you are a Negro! ...Black is powerful.”

Slide 4

• "I'm building a roadfor automobiles
• that there fly above.
• Building a road
• through the thicket of palm trees
• that the light and progress
• will run above.
• Building a road
• for rich whites and old
• They pass over with their big cars
• and leave me here like a pole.
• Sure,
• a road is useful to all!
• The white car ...
• The Blacks and America
• And I have the advantage of seeing them go.
• I've never seen anyone
• run so well before.
• Hey, man!
• Look here.
• I'm building a road."
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• Legenda: “An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.”