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Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
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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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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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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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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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Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.
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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 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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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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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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There is no color line in art.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.
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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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