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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.

Langston Hughes

Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Best Friendship Morning Myself Togetherness
Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Home Live Misery Radio Thinking Yourself
Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Alcohol Better Instagram Captions Myself Naturally
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
That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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Black Eyes Hide Justice
The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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Fall Forget Home Insurance Phone
Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Hands Reach Star
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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Artist Creation Darkness Expression Happiness People Skin White Young
Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Love Naked Shadow Tree Yourself
Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Country Dangerous Grave Himself Poet Poetry Politics World
My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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Condition Explanation Human Kind Seek
Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Fear Life Myself One Liner Scare
Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Death Poet Word Yourself
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Eyes Love Mistake Relationship Search Yourself
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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Beautiful Death Escape Happiness
I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Heaven Myself

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.

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