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Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on
Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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Money and art are far apart.
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They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
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To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
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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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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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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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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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