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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.

Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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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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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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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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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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There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath - America will be! I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.
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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!
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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 stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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