Final Curve
When you turn the corner
And you run into yourself
Then you know that you have turned
All the corners that are left
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Personal
In an envelope marked:
PERSONAL
God addressed me a letter.
In an envelope marked:
PERSONAL
I have given my answer.
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Acceptance
God in His infinite wisdom
Did not make me very wise-
So when my actions are stupid
They hardly take God by surprise
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Songs
I sat there singing her
Songs in the dark.
She said;
'I do not understand
The words'.
I said;
'There are
No words'.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Motto
I play it cool
I dig all jive
That's the reason
I stay alive
My motto
As I live and learn
Is dig and be dug in return
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Enemy
It would be nice
In any case,
To someday meet you
Face to face
Walking down
The road to hell...
As I come up
Feeling swell.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Silence
I catch the pattern
Of your silence
Before you speak
I do not need
To hear a word.
In your silence
Every tone I seek
Is heard.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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