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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.

Langston Hughes

If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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Animal Be Yourself Equality Government Oppression Place Safety
Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Expectation Love Yourself
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Life Lying Opportunity System Truth
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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Drink Eat Learning Life Reading Sleep Understand Work
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
I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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Beautiful Goodness Kind Myself Wait World
Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Alcohol Better Instagram Captions Myself Naturally
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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Home Live Misery Radio Thinking Yourself
The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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Fall Forget Home Insurance Phone
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
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Rain Sing Song
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
To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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Book Creation Man Professional Story Writing
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
I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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Alive Learning Myself Return Stay
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Earth Rain Summer Welcome Yourself

Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.

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