Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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 only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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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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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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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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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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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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Money and art are far apart.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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