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

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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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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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Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that's in my mind.
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To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
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Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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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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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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I will not take but for an answer.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
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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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Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.
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Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on
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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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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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