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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Dreams One Liner
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Hard Time Life Myself Struggle
Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Leaving Love Old Soul Yourself
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
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
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
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Deep Growth River Soul
Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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Affect Crazy Drive Love Relationship Yourself
I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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Jump Myself River Thinking
Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Acceptance Beautiful Black Myself Self Love White
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Earth Rain Summer Welcome Yourself
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Build Himself Inspirational Man Start World
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
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
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Care Cry People Soul Yourself
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
I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Heaven Myself
Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Laughter Yourself
There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Dreams Lost Travel
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
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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Build Fake God Imagination People
Money and art are far apart.
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Art Money One Liner
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
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Breathe Country Equality
There is no color line in art.
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Art Color Line One Liner
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Calm Cool Face Kiss Myself River
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Grave Himself Poet Poetry Politics

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