Photo: Sunset over the Blue Ridge Mountains
Hope is a crushed stalk
Between clenched fingers
Hope is a bird's wing
Broken by a stone.
Hope is a word in a tuneless ditty--
A word whispered with the wind,
A dream of forty acres and a mule,
A cabin of one's own and a moment to rest,
A name and place for one's children
and children's children at last...
Hope is a song in a weary throat.
--Pauli Murray
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