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.
LANGSTON HUGHESKeep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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