Black Insights: Significant Literature by Black Americans, 1760 to the Present |
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... heart to heart with no third witness . The Sea Islands of the Carolinas , where they met , were filled with a black folk of primitive type , touched and moulded less by the world about them than any others outside the Black Belt . Their ...
... heart to heart with no third witness . The Sea Islands of the Carolinas , where they met , were filled with a black folk of primitive type , touched and moulded less by the world about them than any others outside the Black Belt . Their ...
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... heart o ' hearts , Thou art my soul's repose , And my soul is dumb We Wear the Mask We wear the mask that grins and lies , It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes , — This debt we pay to human guile ; With torn and bleeding hearts we ...
... heart o ' hearts , Thou art my soul's repose , And my soul is dumb We Wear the Mask We wear the mask that grins and lies , It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes , — This debt we pay to human guile ; With torn and bleeding hearts we ...
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... Heart of what slave poured out such melody As " Steal away to Jesus " ? On its strains His spirit must have nightly floated free , Though still about his hands he felt his chains . Who heard great " Jordan roll " ? Whose starward eye ...
... Heart of what slave poured out such melody As " Steal away to Jesus " ? On its strains His spirit must have nightly floated free , Though still about his hands he felt his chains . Who heard great " Jordan roll " ? Whose starward eye ...
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