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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 got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
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I will not take but for an answer.
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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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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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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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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
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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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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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