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

Langston Hughes

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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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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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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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There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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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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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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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
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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 got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
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