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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

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
Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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Fortune Hell Summer Taste Winter Yourself
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
A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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Black Dreams Earth Freedom Man Race White World Yourself
Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Expectation Love Yourself
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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Artist Creation Darkness Expression Happiness People Skin White Young
Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Love Naked Shadow Tree Yourself
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
Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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Break Care Life Patience Perspective
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
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
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
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
This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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Hungry Morning Myself Price
I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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Dare Morning Myself Start Thinking
The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Life Music One Liner Rhythm

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