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11/07/11

Monday’s quote

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Monday’s quote is a short poem titled “Dreams” by American poet and social activist Langston Hughes.  He’s best known for writing about the struggles of African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance.  He, along with other talented artists like Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and E. E. Cummings,  was an early innovator of jazz poetry.   […]

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