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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.

Langston Hughes

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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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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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Money and art are far apart.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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