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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on
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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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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that's in my mind.
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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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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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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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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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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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There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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For poems are like rainbows they escape you quickly.
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To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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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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Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.
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