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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.

Langston Hughes

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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Best Friendship Morning Myself Togetherness
Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Hands Hold On Yourself
Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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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

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