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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!
Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
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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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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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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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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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I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.
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Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.
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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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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 a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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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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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Life for me ain't been no crystal stair
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I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
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