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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.

Langston Hughes

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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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 America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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