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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

Langston Hughes

Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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Forever Goodness Love Regret Return Wasted
Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Expectation Love 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
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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Country Goodness Myself People Race
There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Dreams Lost Travel
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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Beginning Color Moon Poem Police Stop Talk
Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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Care Different Each Other Ethnicity Nation Togetherness Unity
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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Drive God Hope Myself Place Time
We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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Build Freedom Mountain Ourselves Stand Strong Temple
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Hard Time Inspirational Motivational People
Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Laughter Yourself
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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Dreams Head Kind Man Myself World
For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Escape Poem Quick Yourself
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Build Himself Inspirational Man Start World
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Deep Growth River Soul
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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Breathe Equality Freedom Land Liberty Life Myself Patriot

Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

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