My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
LANGSTON HUGHESMy soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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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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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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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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