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To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.

Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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Journalist
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Joplin
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James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
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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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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
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Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.
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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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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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