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Life for me ain't been no crystal stair
Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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James Langston Hughes
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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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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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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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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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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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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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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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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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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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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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