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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

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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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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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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For poems are like rainbows they escape you quickly.
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I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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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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As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have my own window to shoot from.
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Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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