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Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.
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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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I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.
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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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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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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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I will not take but for an answer.
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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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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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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.
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Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.
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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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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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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that's in my mind.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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