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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

Langston Hughes

I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Deep Growth Human Old River Soul World
A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Dreams One Liner
Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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Death Grave Man Peace Victory
For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Escape Poem Quick Yourself
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
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Build Himself Inspirational Man Start World
The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Alcohol Depression Fall
Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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Earth God Live Right Teaching Togetherness
Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Expectation Love Yourself
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
Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Laughter Yourself
Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Myself Road Walk
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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Jump Myself River Thinking
I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Democracy God Government Myself See
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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Alive Learning Myself Return Stay
There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Dreams Lost Travel

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