What happens to a dream deferred? Daddy, ain’t you…

What happens
to a dream deferred?
Daddy, ain’t you heard?

Sourced, Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)

Good Morning

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Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
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Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
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I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
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My motto,
As I live and learn,
is:
Dig And Be Dug
In Return. - View Quote Details on My motto,
As I live and learn,
is:
Dig…
You talk like they
don’t kick dreams
around downtown. - View Quote Details on You talk like they
don’t kick dreams
around downtown.
Way Down South in Dixie
(Break the heart of me)
They hung my black young lover
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(Break the heart of me)
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I was so sick last night I
Didn’t hardly know my mind.
So sick last night I
Didn’t know my mind.
I drunk some bad licker that
Almost made me blind. - View Quote Details on I was so sick last night I
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