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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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I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.
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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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Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!
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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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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
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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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I will not take but for an answer.
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Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
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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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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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