Note: This essay will be included in an upcomming book about the presidential election. For more info, contact me at johnwconnellyjr@yahoo.com or message me on here Read More »
Langston Hughes
Let America Be America Again
By john w connelly jr - Posted on January 20th, 2009
Tagged: Essay Contests
• GLBT rights
• hope
• inauguration 2009
• Langston Hughes
• Maya Angelou
• Poetry
• president bush
• President Obama
• Racial Unity
• Religious Freedom
• the future
• Broad prosperity
• Shared responsibility
• Effective government
• Personal freedom
• Better future
Dreaming
By AngelAsh88 - Posted on October 9th, 2008
Dream Deferred
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
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This is-A Muslim Girl's Plight
By asmaw - Posted on September 6th, 2007
Tagged: American
• broad prosperity
• immigrant status
• inequity
• Langston Hughes
• second class citizen
• Shared Responsibility; Better Future; Effective Government; Civil Rights; Social Justice
• social equality
• Personal freedom
I am an American. It might not be obvious by my features, my religious beliefs or my back ground, but I am you. I too am an American. When you see me, I know what you are thinking. Read More »
