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Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.
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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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I will not take but for an answer.
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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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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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For poems are like rainbows they escape you quickly.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.
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To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
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Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.
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