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

Langston Hughes

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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
I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Freedom Heart Broken Myself
Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Myself Road Walk
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
Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Hands Hold On Yourself
The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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Fall Forget Home Insurance Phone
Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Fear Life Myself One Liner Scare
Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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Born Death Hard Love Yourself
I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Democracy God Government Myself See
Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Leaving Love Old Soul Yourself
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Rain Sing Song
That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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Black Eyes Hide Justice
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Eyes Love Mistake Relationship Search 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
For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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Best Feeling Happiness Myself Poem Worst Writing
Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Hands Reach Star

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