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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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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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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
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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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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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For poems are like rainbows they escape you quickly.
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I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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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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I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
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I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.
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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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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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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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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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