"Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Sit silently on their temple shelves While the people Are afraid Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made."
— Freethought

January 1, 1970

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Langston Hughes in: Dolan Hubbard The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940, University of Missouri Press, 2001, p. 156