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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, by Gil Scott-Heron

Credit: Adam Turner. The image is of Gil Scott-Heron performing at the Regency Ballroom, San Francisco (USA), 2009. Used under CC attribution share-alike 3.0 license

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Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly #LangstonHughes

My people speaks: Two poems and other inanities

My people speaks My people speak of gutters Yawning besides torn asphalt And the hungry feet of concrete eyed kids. My people speak of puddles, Of frogs and mosquitoes

National Poetry Month — April 2nd

The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes Langston Hughes came to fame back in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, and much of his poetry focused