I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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 calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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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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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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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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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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