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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.

Langston Hughes

One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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Difficult Greatness Help Minority Race
Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Death Poet Word Yourself
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Deep Growth River Soul
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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Love Myself Night Play Rain Song
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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Affect Crazy Drive Love Relationship Yourself
There is no color line in art.
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Art Color Line One Liner
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
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
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Hard Time Life Myself Struggle
Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Love Naked Shadow Tree Yourself
I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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Fall In Love Herself Jealous Woman Yourself
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Head Kiss Rain Sing Yourself
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
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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Finish Start Way Yourself
There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Dreams Lost Travel
Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Home Page Poet True Writing Yourself

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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