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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 Mercer Langston Hughes
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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 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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I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism.
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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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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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I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
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For poems are like rainbows they escape you quickly.
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Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.
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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
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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 create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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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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