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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

Langston Hughes

The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Life Music One Liner Rhythm
Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Expectation Love Yourself
Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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Darkness Quick Snow Song Sun
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
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Dreams Explode Sun
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
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
Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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Drive God Hope Myself Place Time
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Deep Growth River Soul
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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Believe Creative Direction Politics Reaction Success Thinking Writing
There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Dreams Lost Travel
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
Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Hands Hold On Yourself
There is no color line in art.
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Art Color Line One Liner
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
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

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