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Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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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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7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.
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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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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
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This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.
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I will not take but for an answer.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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For poems are like rainbows they escape you quickly.
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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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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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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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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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Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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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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