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I will not take but for an answer.

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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I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.
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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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