Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
LANGSTON HUGHESWords 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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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Money and art are far apart.
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