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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.

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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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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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I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.
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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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As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have my own window to shoot from.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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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.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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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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To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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