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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 Mercer Langston Hughes
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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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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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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 got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
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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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Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!
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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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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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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering I want to be white, hidden in the aspirations of his people, to Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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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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So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.
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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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Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
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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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