"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it."
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"Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory."
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"Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness."
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"What happens to a dream deferred?"
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"I will not take "but" for an answer."
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"One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help."
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"I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
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"The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss"
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"I don't dare start thinking in the morning. I don't dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head-- So I don't dare start thinking in the morning."
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"Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well."
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"My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind."
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"This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back."
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"It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been."
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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."
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"Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding."
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"To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man."
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"Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that will not stock a book by a Negro writer, not even as a gift? There are towns where Negro newspapers and magazines cannot be sold except surreptitiously. There are American magazines that have never published anything by Negroes. There are film studios that have never hired a Negro writer. Censorship for us begins at the color line."
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"Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye."
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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."
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"Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why."
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