Shadows by Langston Hughes — Read

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We run, / We run, / We cannot stand these shadows!

Give us the sun.

We were not made / For shade, / For heavy shade, / And narrow space of stifling air / That these white things have made.

We run, / Oh, God, / We run!

We must break through these shadows, / We must find the sun.

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