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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

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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Care Cry People Soul Yourself
The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Big Life Myself
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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Beginning Black Live Oppression Ourselves Poet Writing
Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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