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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

Langston Hughes

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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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