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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

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
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
Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Hands Hold On Yourself
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Deep Growth River Soul
O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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Breathe Equality Freedom Land Liberty Life Myself Patriot
Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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Forever Goodness Love Regret Return Wasted
A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Dreams One Liner
Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Myself Road Walk
Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Acceptance Beautiful Black Myself Self Love White
For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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Best Feeling Happiness Myself Poem Worst Writing
There is no color line in art.
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Art Color Line One Liner
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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Freedom Heart Myself Sing Wonderful Word
Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Hands Reach Star
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
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
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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Death Life Live Music Note

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

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