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Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.

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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering I want to be white, hidden in the aspirations of his people, to Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!
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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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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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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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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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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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Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.
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Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
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