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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.

Langston Hughes

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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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I 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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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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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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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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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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Money and art are far apart.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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