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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.
Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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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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I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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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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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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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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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 an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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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 got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
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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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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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