I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
LANGSTON HUGHESA 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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Money and art are far apart.
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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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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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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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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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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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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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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