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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.

Langston Hughes

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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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Break Care Life Patience Perspective
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Beginning Black Live Oppression Ourselves Poet Writing
Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Hands Reach Star
I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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Dare Morning Myself Start Thinking
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
Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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Cheap Dangerous Moon Silver
Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Acceptance Beautiful Black Myself Self Love White
Money and art are far apart.
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Art Money One Liner
I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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Company Darkness Eat Growth Laughter Myself Strong
LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Democracy Freedom Liberty True Word
The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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Finish Start Way Yourself
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
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
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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Forever Goodness Love Regret Return Wasted
There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Dreams Lost Travel
For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Escape Poem Quick Yourself

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