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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

Langston Hughes

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
There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Dreams Lost Travel
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Build Himself Inspirational Man Start World
I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Democracy God Government Myself See
Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Big Life Myself
Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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Death Grave Man Peace Victory
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
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
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
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Hard Time Inspirational Motivational 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
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
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
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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Black Dreams Earth Freedom Man Race White World Yourself
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Dreams Explode Sun
Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Leaving Love Old Soul Yourself

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

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