Word: poem
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...concluded his speech by quoting from a poem by Langston Hughes, "To save the dream for one, is to save the dream for all." Higginbotham received a standing ovation...
Soyinka began by reading from some of his works, including the poem, "Mohammed Ali at the Ring-side," and an excerpt from his play, Death and the King's Horsemen...
...Everybody at some point has written a poem. Even if it's at three o'clock in the morning, and you scribble down four lines. It's great for sharing emotions and ideas, and just for having...
...example among the black students on the dormitory corridor where he lived. "He was always respectful of women and critical of those who were not," says classmate Leonard Cooper. In the early 1970s, when the campus was gripped by debate over whether to go coed, Thomas composed a poem, "Is You or Is You Ain't a Brother?" which he posted at the entrance to the dorm. "The point of the poem was, if you don't respect women, you're not a brother," recalls Edward Jenkins, a Boston attorney who was one of Thomas' fellow students...
Adrienne Rich '51 received the strongest applause of the evening. The Stanford University professor, flanked by large bouquets of sunflowers, read several short poems and a longer selection from her poem "An Atlas of the Difficult World...