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God is the Old Repair Man.
When we are junk in Nature's storehouse he takes us apart.
What is good he lays...
You can only die each morning, And live again in the dreams of night.
Source: The...
These are my people, I have built for them
a castle in the cloister of my heart . . .
I am tired of work; I am tired of building up somebody else's civilization.
Source:...
It seemed to me like trying to walk on the Atlantic Ocean to obtain recognition in the literary...
I battered the cordons around me
And cradled my wings on the breeze,
Then soared to the uttermost...
The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it...
Rise with the hour for which you were made.
Source: Hope.
-- Georgia Douglas...
Your world is as big as you make it.
Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet...
I've learned of life this bitter truth
Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find...
Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of Mississippi send out their...
Another weaver of black dreams has gone.
Source: For Lanston Hughes.
--...
To write a blues song
is to regiment riots
and pluck gems from graves.
I boil my tears in a twisted spoon
And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.
In the beginning was the word,
And in the end the deed.
Judas did it to Jesus
Tor the same Herd. Same...
Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,
And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,
Stealing my breath of...
I know the dark delight of being strange,
The penalty of difference in the crowd,
The loneliness of wisdom among...
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political...
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and...
If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.