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

Langston Hughes

If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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Beautiful Children Help Honor Man Race Respect Woman Writing Young
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Calm Cool Face Kiss Myself River
Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Laughter Yourself
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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Animal Be Yourself Equality Government Oppression Place Safety
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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Love Myself Night Play Rain Song
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 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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Finish Start Way Yourself
Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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Doubt Equality Goodness Kindness Learning Myself Sin
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Grave Himself Poet Poetry Politics
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Hard Time Life Myself Struggle
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Care Cry People Soul Yourself
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Beautiful Book Language People Suffering
Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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Care Different Each Other Ethnicity Nation Togetherness Unity
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
O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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Breathe Equality Freedom Land Liberty Life Myself Patriot
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.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Blind Body Eyes Hands Inspirational Mindset Motivational Power See World

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