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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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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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Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
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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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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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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 will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.
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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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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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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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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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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
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To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
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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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