I couldnt read then. I couldnt write.

I had to keep on! No stopping for me --

To tell you a story of the long dark way

God put a dream like steel in my soul.

Remember how the strong in struggle and strife

Impel you forever up the great stairs --

For I will be with you till no white brother

Remember my sweat, my pain, my despair.

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I nourished the dream that nothing could smother

Lift high my banner out of the dust.

Three hundred years in the deepest South:

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All you dark children in the world out there,

Believe in the right, let none push you back.

Stand like free men supporting my trust.

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Bringing the cotton and the corn to yield.

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Out of the darkness, the ignorance, the night.

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In order that the race might live and grow.

Look at my face -- dark as the night --

But God put a song and a prayer in my mouth .

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Beaten and mistreated for the work that I gave --

Remember my years, heavy with sorrow --

Make of my pass a road to the light

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Dares keep down the children of the Negro Mother.

I had only hope then , but now through you,

That I had to climb, that I had to know

Carrying in my body the seed of the free.

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Deep in my breast -- the Negro mother.

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Oh, my dark children, may my dreams and my prayers

Now, through my children, Im reaching the goal.

I am the dark girl who crossed the red sea

But I had to keep on till my work was done:

Children sold away from me, Im husband sold, too.

Look ever upward at the sun and the stars.

I was the seed of the coming Free.