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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that's in my mind.

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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
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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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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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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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To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
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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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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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Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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 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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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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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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