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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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Joplin
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James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
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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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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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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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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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To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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Money and art are far apart.
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I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
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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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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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Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!
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There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
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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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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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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
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