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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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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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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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Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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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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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
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Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.
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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
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7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.
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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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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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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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