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.
LANGSTON HUGHESYet 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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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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.
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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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