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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Langston Hughes

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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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Corner Run Yourself
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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Afraid Artist Choice Fear Freedom
Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Fear Life Myself One Liner Scare
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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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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Doubt Equality Goodness Kindness Learning Myself Sin
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
Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Death Poet Word Yourself
Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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Break Care Life Patience Perspective
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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Love Myself Night Play Rain Song
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Hard Time Life Myself Struggle
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Beautiful Book Language People Suffering
I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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Dreams Head Kind Man Myself World
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
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
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Hard Time Inspirational Motivational People
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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Beautiful Death Escape Happiness
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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Artist Creation Darkness Expression Happiness People Skin White Young
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Eyes Love Mistake Relationship Search Yourself
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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Dreams Greatness Kind Man Oneself Strong
Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Detail Happiness Pleasure Search Seek
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Rain Sing Song
There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Dreams Lost Travel
Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Home Page Poet True Writing 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
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Calm Cool Face Kiss Myself River
For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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Best Feeling Happiness Myself Poem Worst Writing
The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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