Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a … - Paul Laurence Dunbar

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"Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. " It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment. But it is worthy of note for the really excellent things which are promised

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. . we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

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Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

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I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings!

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I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

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With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

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