I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
LANGSTON HUGHESGather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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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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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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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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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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