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

Langston Hughes

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
We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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Build Freedom Mountain Ourselves Stand Strong Temple
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
Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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Death Grave Man Peace Victory
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Calm Cool Face Kiss Myself River
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Build Himself Inspirational Man Start World
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Discover Life Yourself
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
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
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
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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Love Myself Night Play Rain Song
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
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Hard Time Inspirational Motivational People
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
Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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Cheap Dangerous Moon Silver
Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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Acceptance Black Blood Inspirational Powerful

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

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