Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
LANGSTON HUGHESGather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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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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