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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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Journalist
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Joplin
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James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
Whiskey
Naturally
Beer
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When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.
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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
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Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.
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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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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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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 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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Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die?
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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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Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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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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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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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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Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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