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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.

Langston Hughes

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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Acceptance Black Blood Inspirational Powerful
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Black Identity Myself Personality
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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Black Eyes Hide Justice
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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Afraid Artist Choice Fear Freedom
The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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Blood Past Sorrow Tomorrow True
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
Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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Cheap Dangerous Moon Silver
Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Hands Reach Star
Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Expectation Love Yourself
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Beautiful Book Language People Suffering
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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Dog Human Prison Run
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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Build Fake God Imagination People
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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Discover Life Yourself
Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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Happiness Music People Poor
When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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Corner Run Yourself
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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Course Death Freedom Live Myself People

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