Perhaps that was, is, the hope of the movement: to awaken the Dreamers, to rouse them to the facts of what their need to be white, to talk like they are white, to think that they are white, which is to think that they are beyond the design flaws of humanity, has done to the world.
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And for so long I have wanted to escape into the Dream, to fold my country over my head like a blanket. But this has never been an option because the Dream rests on our backs, the bedding made from our bodies.
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Perhaps I too might live free. Perhaps I too might wield the same old power that animated the ancestors, that lived in Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Nanny, Cudjoe, Malcolm X, and speak-no, act-as though my body were my own.
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Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love
Whitman refers to the Earth as constant and stable being, saying that it rooted and giving stability through the passing of time. As long as one considers the earth to be stable, equality exists among all people.