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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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James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
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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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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
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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'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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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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I will not take but for an answer.
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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 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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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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I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.
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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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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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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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