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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

Langston Hughes

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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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Darkness Quick Snow Song Sun
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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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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Company Darkness Eat Growth Laughter Myself Strong
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
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Build Himself Inspirational Man Start World
There is no color line in art.
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Art Color Line One Liner
Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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Forever Goodness Love Regret Return Wasted
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
Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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Fortune Hell Summer Taste Winter Yourself
Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Hands Reach Star
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Rain Sing Song
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Hard Time Life Myself Struggle
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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Beginning Color Moon Poem Police Stop Talk
I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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Dare Morning Myself Start Thinking
Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Fear Life Myself One Liner Scare
The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Life Music One Liner Rhythm

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