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There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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
James Mercer Langston Hughes
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It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering I want to be white, hidden in the aspirations of his people, to Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!
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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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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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