What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?
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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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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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