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    “Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
    Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
    I heard a Negro play.

    Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
    By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light”
    —Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

    “Hold fast to dreams
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird
    That cannot fly.”
    —Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

    “... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.”
    —Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923)