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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.

Langston Hughes

A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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Interest Object Photograph Reproduction Value
That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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Black Eyes Hide Justice
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Calm Cool Face Kiss Myself River
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
Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Death Poet Word Yourself
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Hard Time Life Myself Struggle
Money and art are far apart.
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Art Money One Liner
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
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
Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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Acceptance Black Blood Inspirational Powerful
O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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Breathe Equality Freedom Land Liberty Life Myself Patriot
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Rain Sing Song
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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Care Different Each Other Ethnicity Nation Togetherness Unity
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Care Cry People Soul Yourself
Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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Heaven Love Time
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

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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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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