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I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.

Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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Journalist
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Joplin
Missouri
James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
Weary
Satisfied
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Blues

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Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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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 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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Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.
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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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I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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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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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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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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