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.
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 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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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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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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