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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.

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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There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath - America will be! I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
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So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.
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I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
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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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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
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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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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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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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Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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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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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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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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Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.
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