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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

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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 felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
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Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.
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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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For poems are like rainbows they escape you quickly.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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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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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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I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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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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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
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I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
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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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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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