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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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Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
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For poems are like rainbows they escape you quickly.
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Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose.
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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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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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