Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
LANGSTON HUGHESGather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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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.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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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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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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