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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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Joplin
Missouri
James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
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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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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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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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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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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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It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering I want to be white, hidden in the aspirations of his people, to Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!
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Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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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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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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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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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
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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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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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Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die?
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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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