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Only in the chamber of death writhed the world's most piteous thing--a childless mother.
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Better far this nameless void that stops my life than a sea of sorrow for you.
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Why may I not rest me from this restlessness and sleep from this wide waking?
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Well sped, my boy, before the world had dubbed your ambition insolence, had held your ideals unattainable, and taught you to cringe and bow.
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This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.
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One ever feels his two-ness,--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings
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Freedom, too, the long-sought, we still seek,--the freedom of life and limb, the freedom to work and think, the freedom to love and aspire.
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Struggle, work, fight as I would, I seemed to get nowhere and accomplish nothing.
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The Day of Miracles was past, and a long, gray road of dogged work lay ahead.