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Because my mouthIs wide with laughterAnd my throatIs deep with song, You do not think I suffer afterI have held my painSo long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter, You do not hearMy inner cry? Because my feetAre gay with dancing, You do not know I die? – Minstrel Man by Langston Hughes Popular [...]
You say I O.K.edLONG DISTANCE?O.K.ed it when?My goodness, CentralThat was then! I’m mad and disgustedWith that Negro now.I don’t pay no REVERSEDCHARGES nohow. You say, I will pay it–Else you’ll take out my phone?You better letMy phone alone. I didn’t ask himTo telephone me.Roscoe knows darn wellLONG DISTANCEAin’t free. If I ever catch him,Lawd, have [...]
I’ve known rivers:I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than theflow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.I looked upon the Nile and raised the [...]
LoveIs a ripe plumGrowing on a purple tree.Taste it onceAnd the spell of its enchantmentWill never let you be. LoveIs a bright starGlowing in far Southern skies.Look too hardAnd its burning flameWill always hurt your eyes. LoveIs a high mountainStark in a windy sky.If youWould never lose your breathDo not climb too high. – Love [...]
Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged birdThat cannot fly.Hold fast to dreamsFor when dreams goLife is a barren fieldFrozen with snow. – Dreams by Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry upLike a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore–And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar over–like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sagslike a heavy load. Or does it explode? – Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes
It’s such aBoreBeing alwaysPoor. – Ennui by Langston Hughes
I been scared and battered.My hopes the wind done scattered.Snow has friz me,Sun has baked me, Looks like between ‘em they doneTried to make me Stop laughin’, stop lovin’, stop livin’–But I don’t care!I’m still here! – Still Here by Langston Hughes
It was a long time ago.I have almost forgotten my dream.But it was there then,In front of me,Bright like a sun–My dream.And then the wall rose,Rose slowly,Slowly,Between me and my dream.Rose until it touched the sky–The wall.Shadow.I am black.I lie down in the shadow.No longer the light of my dream before me,Above me.Only the thick [...]