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Langston Hughes  Quotes
Sometimes a crumb fallsFrom the tables of joy, Sometimes a boneIs flung.To some peopleLove is given, To othersOnly heaven.

-Langston Hughes

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Luck
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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.

-Langston Hughes

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AspirationsDeterminationDreams
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Out of love,No regrets–Though the goodnessBe wasted forever.Out of love,No regrets–Though the returnBe never.

-Langston Hughes

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LoveNo-RegretsPoetry
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Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon.

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DangerMoonPoem
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HarlemWhat happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore– And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over– like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.Or does it explode?

-Langston Hughes

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DreamsPoetry
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Hold fast to dreamsfor if dreams dielife is a broken-winged birdthat can not fly.Hold fast to dreamsfor when dreams golife is a barren fieldfrozen with snow.

-Langston Hughes

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Dreams
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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, isDig and be dugIn return.

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Inspiration
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Good morning, daddy!Ain’t you heardThe boogie-woogie rumbleOf a dream deferred?Listen closely:You’ll hear their feetBeating out and beating out a -You thinkIt’s a happy beat?Listen to it closely:Ain’t you heardsomething underneathlike a -What did I say?Sure,I’m happy!Take it away!Dream BoogieHey, pop!Re-bop!Mop!Y-e-a-h!

-Langston Hughes

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BoogieDreamHarlem
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What happens to a dream deferred?

-Langston Hughes

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ChasingDreamsPoem
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

-Langston Hughes

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ArtFree-ThoughtPhilosophy
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Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be.

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GodLife
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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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HumorLaughter
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I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love will bless the earth And peace its paths adorn I dream a world where all Will know sweet freedom’s way, Where greed no longer saps the soul Nor avarice blights our day. A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race...

-Langston Hughes

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Equality
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

-Langston Hughes

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BooksKansasSuffering
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I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

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Life-And-Living
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.

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DemocracyFreedomLiars
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Well, son, I’ll tell you:Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.It’s had tacks in it,And splinters,And boards torn up,And places with no carpet on the floor –Bare.But all the timeI’se been a-climbin’ on,And reachin’ landin’s,And turnin’ corners,And sometimes goin’ in the darkWhere there ain’t been no light.So boy, don’t you turn back.Don’t you set...

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Life
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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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DeathLifeLove
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

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LifeSimplicity
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.

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Humor
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Pleasured equallyIn seeking as in finding,Each detail minding,Old Walt went seekingAnd finding.

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FindingPoetrySeeking
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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.

-Langston Hughes

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DeathHardshipPain
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Question and AnswerDurban, Birmingham,Cape Town, Alabama,Johannesburg, Watts,The earth aroundStruggling, fighting,Dying–for what?A world to gain.Groping, hoping,Waiting–for what?A world to gain.Dreams kicked asunder,Why not go under?There’s a world to gain.But suppose I don’t want it,Why take it?To remake it.

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StruggleWorld-Remade
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Words Like FreedomThere are words like FreedomSweet and wonderful to say.On my heartstrings freedom singsAll day everyday.There are words like LibertyThat almost make me cry.If you had known what I knowYou would know why.

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Words
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FreedomIs a strong seedPlantedIn a great need.I live here, too.I want freedomJust as you.

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Freedom
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I, too, sing America.I am the darker brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen company comes,But I laugh,And eat well,And grow strong.Tomorrow,I’ll be at the tableWhen company comes.Nobody’ll dareSay to me,”Eat in the kitchen,”Then.Besides,They’ll see how beautiful I amAnd be ashamed–I, too, am America.

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Civil-RightsEquality
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OppressionNow dreamsAre not availableTo the dreamers,Nor songsTo the singers.In some landsDark nightAnd cold steelPrevail–But the dreamWill come back,And the songBreakIts jail.

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Break-FreeOppression
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My old man’s a white old manAnd my old mother’s black.If ever I cursed my white old manI take my curses back.If ever I cursed my black old motherAnd wished she were in hell,I’m sorry for that evil wishAnd now i wish her wellMy old man died in a fine big houseMy Ma died in...

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EvilHouseMother
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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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AncientDeepLangston-Hughs
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Looks like what drives me crazyDon’t have no effect on you–But I’m gonna keep on at itTill it drives you crazy, too.

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CrazinessCrazyEvil
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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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DeathDesperationDrowning
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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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DreamsHopeInspirational
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Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.

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DreamsHopeInspiration
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The Dream KeeperBring me all of your dreams,You dreamer,Bring me all yourHeart melodiesThat I may wrap themIn a blue cloud-clothAway from the too-rough fingersOf the world.

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DreamsPoetry
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I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books — where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did...

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BooksInspirationalKansas
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Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

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DeathLifeMusic
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