Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhen 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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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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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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