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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.

Langston Hughes

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
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Deep Growth River Soul
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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Change Difference Help Practical Time Transformation Writing
I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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Blind Body Eyes Hands Inspirational Mindset Motivational Power See World
Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Country Dangerous Grave Himself Poet Poetry Politics World
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Rain Sing Song
If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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Animal Be Yourself Equality Government Oppression Place Safety
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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Beginning Black Live Oppression Ourselves Poet Writing
Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Expectation Love Yourself
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
Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Best Friendship Morning Myself Togetherness
Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Big Life Myself
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Eyes Love Mistake Relationship Search Yourself
Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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Break Care Life Patience Perspective
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
A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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Interest Object Photograph Reproduction Value

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