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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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Journalist
Novelist
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Joplin
Missouri
James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
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I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have my own window to shoot from.
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.
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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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Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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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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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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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 have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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