Category: poet
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Alexander Pope
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, 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!’
Langston Hughes
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Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
Maya Angelou
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A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo
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The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats
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I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.
Maya Angelou
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
Victor Hugo
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
Langston Hughes
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And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Alexander Pope
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Victor Hugo