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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Langston Hughes

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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Dreams Greatness Kind Man Oneself Strong
For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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Best Feeling Happiness Myself Poem Worst Writing
There is no color line in art.
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Art Color Line One Liner
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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Love Myself Night Play Rain Song
For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Escape Poem Quick Yourself
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
Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Hands Hold On Yourself
Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Love Naked Shadow Tree Yourself
Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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Drive God Hope Myself Place Time
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
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
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
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
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Breathe Country Equality
Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Big Life Myself
Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Alcohol Better Instagram Captions Myself Naturally
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
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
Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Expectation Love 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
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
Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Leaving Love Old Soul Yourself
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Hard Time Inspirational Motivational People
Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Detail Happiness Pleasure Search Seek
Money and art are far apart.
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Art Money One Liner
I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Deep Growth Human Old River Soul World
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Care Cry People Soul Yourself

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

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