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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Langston Hughes

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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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Drink Eat Learning Life Reading Sleep Understand Work
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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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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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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There is no color line in art.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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Love Myself Night Play Rain Song
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Love Naked Shadow Tree Yourself

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