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A dream deferred is a dream denied.

Langston Hughes

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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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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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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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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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Money and art are far apart.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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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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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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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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