Fie+American+Character


 * “Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.” - W.E.B. Du Bois **

**[|W.E.B. De Bois]**

**'As I Grew Older - Langston Hughes** It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of me,

Bright like a sun-- My dream. And then the wall rose,Rose slowly, Slowly, Between me and my dream. Rose until it touched the sky-- The wall. Shadow. I am black. I lie down in the shadow. No longer the light of my dream before me, Above me. Only the thick wall. Only the shadow. My hands! My dark hands! Break through the wall! Find my dream! Help me to shatter this darkness, To smash this night, To break this shadow Into a thousand lights of sun, Into a thousand whirling dreams Of sun! http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/as-i-grew-older/

There is a hidden connection between the way two different races see each other and the way in which they see themselves. The only way there will be any change is through co-operation and self belief.



[|Change from race reflection]

American dream from another perspective