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Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.

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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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James Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes
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I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism.
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Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.
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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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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
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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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Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on
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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
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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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Life for me ain't been no crystal stair
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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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