Langston Hughes
seeking a light
for darkness
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Bouquet
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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I will not take ""but"" for an answer.
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It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
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Helen Keller
She,
In the dark,
Found light
Brighter than many ever see.
She,
Within herself,
Found loveliness,
Through the soul's own mastery.
And now the world receives
From her dower:
The message of the strength
Of inner power.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
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Problems
2 and 2 are 4.
4 and 4 are 8.
But what would happen
If the last 4 was late?
And how would it be
If one 2 was me?
Or if the first 4 was you
Divided by 2?
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Deceased
Harlem
Sent him home
in a long box-
Too dead
To know why:
The licker
Was lye.
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Final Curve
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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Bad Morning
Here I sit
With my shoes mismated.
Lawdy-mercy!
I's frustrated!
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Wake
Tell all my mourners
To mourn in red --
Cause there ain't no sense
In my bein' dead.
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Walkers with the Dawn
Being walkers with the dawn and morning,
Walkers with the sun and morning,
We are not afraid of night,
Nor days of gloom,
Nor darkness--
Being walkers with the sun and morning.
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Suicide's Note
The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.
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No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
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Langston Hughes
songs from a
solid black heart
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Langston Hughes
every verse peeling
the skin of discrimination
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