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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on
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There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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Money and art are far apart.
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This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.
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