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.
LANGSTON HUGHESI look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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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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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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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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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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