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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.

Langston Hughes

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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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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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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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