Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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There is no color line in art.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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 seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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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 went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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