When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
LANGSTON HUGHESPolitics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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