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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.

Langston Hughes

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
There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Dreams Lost Travel
Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Love Naked Shadow Tree Yourself
I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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Course Death Freedom Live Myself People
There is no color line in art.
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Art Color Line One Liner
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
Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Laughter Yourself
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Grave Himself Poet Poetry Politics
Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Myself Road Walk
Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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Forever Goodness Love Regret Return Wasted
Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Leaving Love Old Soul Yourself
For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Escape Poem Quick Yourself
A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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Interest Object Photograph Reproduction Value
To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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Book Creation Man Professional Story Writing
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
Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Hands Reach Star

Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.

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