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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.

Langston Hughes

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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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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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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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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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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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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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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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