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CALLING DREAMS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE RIGHT TO MAKE MY DREAMS COME TRUE
Last Line: AND STRIDE INTO THE MORNING-BREAK!
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN AMERICANS - WOMEN; DREAMS; NEGROES; AMERICAN BLACKS; NIGHTMARES;
The right to make my dreams come true
I ask, nay, I demand of life,
Nor shall fate's deadly contraband
Impede my steps, nor countermand.

Too long my heart against the ground
Has beat the dusty years around,
And now, at length, I rise, I wake!
And stride into the morning-break!



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