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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.

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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
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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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Life for me ain't been no crystal stair
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There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
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Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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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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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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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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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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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 fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
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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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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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