Melting pot Harlem Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall ... where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.
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Good morning, daddy Aint you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred You think Its a happy beat.James Langston Hughes
Rest a pale evening ... A tall slim tree ... Night coming tenderly Black like me.
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I am the American heartbreak The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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It is the duty of the younger Negro artist ... to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white I am a Negro and beautiful'
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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