Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
LANGSTON HUGHESPeace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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