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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.

Langston Hughes

Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Leaving Love Old Soul Yourself
Politics 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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Country Dangerous Grave Himself Poet Poetry Politics World
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
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
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Beautiful Book Language People Suffering
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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Believe Creative Direction Politics Reaction Success Thinking Writing
Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Best Friendship Morning Myself Togetherness
Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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Earth God Live Right Teaching Togetherness
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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Drink Eat Learning Life Reading Sleep Understand Work
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
I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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Fall In Love Herself Jealous Woman Yourself
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
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Care Cry People Soul Yourself
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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Country Goodness Myself People Race
The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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Finish Start Way Yourself
Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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Happiness Music People Poor

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