Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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There is no color line in art.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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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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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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 for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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