I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
LANGSTON HUGHESI’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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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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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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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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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Money and art are far apart.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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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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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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