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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.

Langston Hughes

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Black Identity Myself Personality
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
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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Black Dreams Earth Freedom Man Race White World Yourself
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Eyes Love Mistake Relationship Search Yourself
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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Drink Eat Learning Life Reading Sleep Understand Work
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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Build Fake God Imagination People
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Calm Cool Face Kiss Myself River
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Hard Time Inspirational Motivational People
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Afraid Artist Choice Fear Freedom
I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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Fall In Love Herself Jealous Woman 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
Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Detail Happiness Pleasure Search Seek
I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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Dare Morning Myself Start Thinking
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Life Lying Opportunity System Truth
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
Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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Death Grave Man Peace Victory

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