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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.

Langston Hughes

Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Rain Sing Song
I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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Dreams Head Kind Man Myself World
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Hard Time Life Myself Struggle
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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Beautiful Death Escape Happiness
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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Believe Creative Direction Politics Reaction Success Thinking Writing
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
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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Drink Eat Learning Life Reading Sleep Understand Work
Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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Forever Goodness Love Regret Return Wasted
Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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Acceptance Black Blood Inspirational Powerful
That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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Black Eyes Hide Justice
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
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Build Himself Inspirational Man Start World
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Calm Cool Face Kiss Myself River
I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Democracy God Government Myself See
For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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Best Feeling Happiness Myself Poem Worst Writing
Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Fear Life Myself One Liner Scare

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.

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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.

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