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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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James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
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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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So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.
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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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