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Quotation from Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
“But all the time I’se been a-climbin’ on, And reachin’ landin’s, And turnin’ corners, And sometimes goin’ in the dark, Where there ain’t been no light”
Mother to Son, Lines 8-13 (The Crisis, December 1922)
She describes how she kept climbing through every hardship, even in the dark.
Citation: "But all the time I’se been a-climbin’ on, And reachin’ landin’s, And turnin’ corners, And sometimes goin’ in the dark, Where there ain’t been no light" — Langston Hughes, Mother to Son, Lines 8-13 (The Crisis, December 1922). (id hughes-mother-to-son-q2)
