Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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There is no color line in art.
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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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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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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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