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Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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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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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.
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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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There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.
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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.
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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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There is no color line in art.
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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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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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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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