Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead. - Langston Hughes

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It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

Langston Hughes

Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.

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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

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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.

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A world I dream where black or white, whatever race you be, will share the bounties of the earth and every man is free

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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, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America.

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