A certain amount of nothing in a dream…

A certain amount
of nothing
in a dream deferred.

Sourced, Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)

Same in Blues

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Why should it be my loneliness,
Why should it be my song,
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And all the songs we’ve sung
And all the hopes we’ve held
And all the flags we’ve hung,
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Sure, call me any ugly name you choose —
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people’s lives,
We must take back our land again,
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed —
Let it be that great strong land of love
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Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
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The mountains and the endless plain —
All, all the stretch of these great green states —
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I swear to the Lord
I still can’t see
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