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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Langston Hughes

Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Laughter Yourself
For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Escape Poem Quick Yourself
Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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Heaven Love Time
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
I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Freedom Heart Broken Myself
The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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Blood Past Sorrow Tomorrow True
Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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Break Care Life Patience Perspective
Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Death Poet Word Yourself
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Beautiful Book Language People Suffering
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
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Black Identity Myself Personality
There is no color line in art.
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Art Color Line One Liner
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
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
Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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Affect Crazy Drive Love Relationship Yourself

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