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Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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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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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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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 am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.
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Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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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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There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on
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Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
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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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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
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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 got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
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I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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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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