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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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This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.
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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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I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.
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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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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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I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose.
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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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