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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

Langston Hughes

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
One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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Difficult Greatness Help Minority Race
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
It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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Country Goodness Myself People Race
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
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Breathe Country Equality
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
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
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Deep Growth River Soul
Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Expectation Love Yourself
A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Dreams One Liner
Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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Doubt Equality Goodness Kindness Learning Myself Sin
There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Dreams Lost Travel
Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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Fortune Hell Summer Taste Winter Yourself
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
But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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Change Difference Help Practical Time Transformation Writing

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