"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair"
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"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."
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"I wish the rent Was heaven sent."
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"Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be."
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"If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed."
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"Road's in front o' me, Nothin' to do but walk."
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"Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break."
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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."
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"Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between."
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"Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!"
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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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"Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown."
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"Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!"
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"I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here!"
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"I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend."
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"My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
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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 swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me."
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"We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves."
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"Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above."
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