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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.

Langston Hughes

Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Death Poet Word Yourself
My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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Condition Explanation Human Kind Seek
Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Laughter Yourself
For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Escape Poem Quick Yourself
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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Difficult Greatness Help Minority Race
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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Beautiful Death Escape Happiness
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Life Lying Opportunity System Truth
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Calm Cool Face Kiss Myself River
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
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
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Dreams Explode Sun
Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Big Life Myself
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Deep Growth River Soul
Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Home Live Misery Radio Thinking Yourself
But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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Change Difference Help Practical Time Transformation Writing
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

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