"I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long."
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"The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm"
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"Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home."
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"For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly."
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"Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas."
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"The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall."
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"Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants."
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"There is no color line in art."
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"Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful."
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"Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion."
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"Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me"
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"Life dosent frighten me at all."
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"7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love."
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"We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line."
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"There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred."
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"How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ "Sea Calm"
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"If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help."
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"Anyday, one can walk down the street in a big city and see a thousand people. Any photographer can photograph these people - but very few photographers can make their prints not only reproductions of the people taken, but a comment upon them - or more, a comment upon their lives - or more still, a comment upon the social order that creates these lives."
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"Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better."
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"Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be."
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