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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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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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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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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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For poems are like rainbows they escape you quickly.
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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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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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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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