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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.

Langston Hughes

Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Acceptance Beautiful Black Myself Self Love White
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Earth Rain Summer Welcome Yourself
LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Democracy Freedom Liberty True Word
A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Dreams One Liner
Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Detail Happiness Pleasure Search Seek
A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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Interest Object Photograph Reproduction Value
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Care Cry People Soul Yourself
O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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Breathe Equality Freedom Land Liberty Life Myself Patriot
The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Alcohol Depression Fall
I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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Beautiful Goodness Kind Myself Wait World
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Build Himself Inspirational Man Start World
Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Death Poet Word Yourself
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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Jump Myself River Thinking
Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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Freedom Heart Myself Sing Wonderful Word
Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Fear Life Myself One Liner Scare
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.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Animal Be Yourself Equality Government Oppression Place Safety

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