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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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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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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
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