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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Langston Hughes

A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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Dog Human Prison Run
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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Beginning Color Moon Poem Police Stop Talk
For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Escape Poem Quick Yourself
This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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Hungry Morning Myself Price
My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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Condition Explanation Human Kind Seek
Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Leaving Love Old Soul Yourself
Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Fear Life Myself One Liner Scare
I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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Jump Myself River Thinking
I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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Beautiful Goodness Kind Myself Wait World
Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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Earth God Live Right Teaching Togetherness
Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Myself Road Walk
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Hard Time Life Myself Struggle
Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Home Live Misery Radio Thinking Yourself
There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Dreams Lost Travel
To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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Book Creation Man Professional Story Writing
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Black Identity Myself Personality

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

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