I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
LANGSTON HUGHESPolitics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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There is no color line in art.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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