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For poems are like rainbows they escape you quickly.
Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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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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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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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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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have my own window to shoot from.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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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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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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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
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Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism.
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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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