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So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.
Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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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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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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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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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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There is no color line in art.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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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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7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
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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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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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 am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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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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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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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
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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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