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7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.

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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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Poet
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Joplin
Missouri
James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
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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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Life for me ain't been no crystal stair
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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
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Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.
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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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I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
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There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.
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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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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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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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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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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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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 will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.
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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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There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath - America will be! I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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