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There is no color line in art.

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
Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Expectation Love Yourself
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!
LANGSTON HUGHES

Fall In Love Herself Jealous Woman Yourself
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Build Fake God Imagination People
Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Leaving Love Old Soul Yourself
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Bird Break Death Deep Dreams Fast Fly Hold Life Wings
Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Best Friendship Morning Myself Togetherness
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Discover Life Yourself
The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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Fall Forget Home Insurance Phone
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
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Dreams Explode Sun
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.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Dare Morning Myself Start Thinking
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.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Affect Crazy Drive Love Relationship Yourself
If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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Animal Be Yourself Equality Government Oppression Place Safety
Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Darkness Quick Snow Song Sun
Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Alcohol Better Instagram Captions Myself Naturally

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