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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
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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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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have my own window to shoot from.
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
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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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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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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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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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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.
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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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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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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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Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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