The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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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