Wear it like a banner for the proud? Not like a shroud.
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No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
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I am a negro: black as the night is black, black like the depths of my Africa.
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We younger Negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren't, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we know how and we stand on the top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Dream)
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why democracy means, everybody but me.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Dream)
There's a certain
amount of traveling
in a dream deferred.
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