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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.

Langston Hughes

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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Drink Eat Learning Life Reading Sleep Understand Work
Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Home Page Poet True Writing Yourself
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Build Himself Inspirational Man Start World
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Eyes Love Mistake Relationship Search Yourself
Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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Darkness Quick Snow Song Sun
Money and art are far apart.
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Art Money One Liner
That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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Black Eyes Hide Justice
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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Beautiful Death Escape Happiness
Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Fear Life Myself One Liner Scare
I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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Fall In Love Herself Jealous Woman Yourself
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Breathe Country Equality
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
But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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Change Difference Help Practical Time Transformation Writing
There is no color line in art.
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Art Color Line One Liner
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Black Identity Myself Personality
When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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Corner Run Yourself

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