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 HUGHESLangston Hughes Quotes
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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.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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There is no color line in art.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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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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