I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
LANGSTON HUGHESOut of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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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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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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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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