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Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
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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
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I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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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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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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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.
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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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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
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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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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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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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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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