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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. (Langston Hughes)
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. View quote
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return. View quote
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So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born. View quote
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I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would. View quote
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Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on. View quote
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Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose. View quote
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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon. View quote
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Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be. View quote
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Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between. View quote
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank. (Langston Hughes)
The stars went out and so did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead. View quote
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They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed - I, too, am America. View quote
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I was so sick last night I Didn't hardly know my mind. So sick last night I Didn't know my mind. I drunk some bad licker that Almost made me blind. View quote
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I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. View quote
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... the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,.... View quote
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself. View quote
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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. View quote
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Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die. View quote
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Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale. View quote
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Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never. (Langston Hughes)
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made. View quote
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss. View quote
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7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love. View quote
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. View quote
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