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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!
Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.
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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.
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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 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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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I will not take but for an answer.
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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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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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