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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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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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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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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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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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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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Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.
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I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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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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There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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