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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!

Langston Hughes

I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Deep Growth Human Old River Soul World
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Deep Growth River Soul
The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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Blood Past Sorrow Tomorrow True
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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Head Kiss Rain Sing Yourself
I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Democracy God Government Myself See
Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Home Page Poet True Writing Yourself
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Hard Time Inspirational Motivational People
Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Death Poet Word Yourself
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Black Identity Myself Personality
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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Corner Run Yourself
Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Home Live Misery Radio Thinking Yourself
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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Discover Life Yourself
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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Fall In Love Herself Jealous Woman Yourself
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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Course Death Freedom Live Myself People
Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Detail Happiness Pleasure Search Seek
LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Democracy Freedom Liberty True Word
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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Beginning Color Moon Poem Police Stop Talk
I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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Company Darkness Eat Growth Laughter Myself Strong
Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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Cheap Dangerous Moon Silver
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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Black Eyes Hide Justice
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Earth Rain Summer Welcome Yourself
Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Leaving Love Old Soul Yourself
I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Heaven Myself
Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Big Life Myself
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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Fall Forget Home Insurance Phone
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Care Cry People Soul Yourself
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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Acceptance Black Blood Inspirational Powerful

I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!

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