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I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.
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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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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7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.
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Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.
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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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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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Money and art are far apart.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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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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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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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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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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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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