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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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James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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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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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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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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I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.
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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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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
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