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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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James Mercer Langston Hughes
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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
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I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.
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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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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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Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
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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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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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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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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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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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Life for me ain't been no crystal stair
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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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