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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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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.
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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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7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.
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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 am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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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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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath - America will be! I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
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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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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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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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