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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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Poet
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Joplin
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James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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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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When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.
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I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.
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Money and art are far apart.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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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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