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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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Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.
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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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They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
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Money and art are far apart.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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