When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
LANGSTON HUGHESA dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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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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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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