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Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.

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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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
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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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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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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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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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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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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
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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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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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