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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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Essayist
Journalist
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Joplin
Missouri
James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
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Anyhow
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Democracy
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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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