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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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.
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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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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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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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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
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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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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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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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I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.
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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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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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Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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