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Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.
Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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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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Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.
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I will not take but for an answer.
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.
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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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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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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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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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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.
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Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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