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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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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.
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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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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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7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.
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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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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 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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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die?
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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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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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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
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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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