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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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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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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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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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I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
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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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Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on
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