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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.

Langston Hughes

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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Myself Road Walk
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
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Life Lying Opportunity System Truth
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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Dreams Head Kind Man Myself World
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Care Cry People Soul Yourself
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Rain Sing Song
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Dreams Explode Sun
Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Love Naked Shadow Tree Yourself
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Hard Time Life Myself Struggle
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Breathe Country Equality
Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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Affect Crazy Drive Love Relationship Yourself
There is no color line in art.
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Art Color Line One Liner
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
My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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Condition Explanation Human Kind Seek
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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Country Goodness Myself People Race
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

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