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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.

Langston Hughes

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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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Build Freedom Mountain Ourselves Stand Strong Temple
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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Break Care Life Patience Perspective
Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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Dog Human Prison Run
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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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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Country Goodness Myself People Race
Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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Cheap Dangerous Moon Silver
Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Acceptance Beautiful Black Myself Self Love White
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Beginning Black Live Oppression Ourselves Poet Writing
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Deep Growth River Soul
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

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