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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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Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose.
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Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.
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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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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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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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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that's in my mind.
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.
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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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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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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.
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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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