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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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Joplin
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James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
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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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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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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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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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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss
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I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.
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Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die?
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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
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Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.
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