Hughes slides

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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. "

Caption: : "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”

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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."

Caption: : "I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”

"I've known rivers:. I've known rivers ancient as the world and older thanflow 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 Mississippiwhen 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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Caption: : “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.”

"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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Caption: : “An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.”