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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
Langston Hughes
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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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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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I will not take but for an answer.
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.
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For poems are like rainbows they escape you quickly.
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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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Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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