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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.
Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
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Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.
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For poems are like rainbows they escape you quickly.
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I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.
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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
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Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
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To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
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I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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