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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

Langston Hughes

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Black Identity Myself Personality
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
This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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Hungry Morning Myself Price
Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Myself Road Walk
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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Animal Be Yourself Equality Government Oppression Place Safety
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Breathe Country Equality
I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Heaven Myself
If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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Beautiful Children Help Honor Man Race Respect Woman Writing Young
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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Doubt Equality Goodness Kindness Learning Myself Sin
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
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Beautiful Book Language People Suffering
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
A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Dreams One Liner
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Eyes Love Mistake Relationship Search 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
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 am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

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