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• Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die?

  Langston Hughes

  Song, Pain, Laughter

  Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard (2003). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing”, p.63, University of Missouri Press

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• Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.

  Langston Hughes

  Home, Writing, Tonight

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.52, University of Missouri Press

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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.

  Langston Hughes

  Christian, Nice, People

  Langston Hughes (1995). “Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62”, p.104, University of Illinois Press

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• That Justice is a blind goddess
  Is a thing to which we black are wise:
  Her bandage hides two festering sores
  That once perhaps were eyes.

  Langston Hughes

  Wise, Eye, Two

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.160, University of Missouri Press

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• I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Joy, Needs

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.259, University of Missouri Press

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• I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.

  Langston Hughes

  Morning, Spring, Bangs

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.110, University of Missouri Press

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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.

  Langston Hughes

  Alive, Way, Return

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• Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.

  Langston Hughes

  Mean, Dying, Littles

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.41, University of Missouri Press

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• LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

  Langston Hughes

  Liars, Democracy, Liberty

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.221, University of Missouri Press

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• My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

  Langston Hughes

  Rivers, Soul, Environmental

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.36, University of Missouri Press

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• Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!

  Langston Hughes

  Fall, Together, Atoms

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.7, Hill and Wang

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• We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

  Langston Hughes

  Strong, Kwanzaa, Mountain

  Langston Hughes, Christopher C. De Santis (1995). “Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62”, p.5, University of Illinois Press

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• There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath - America will be! I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

  Langston Hughes

  Mean, Rocks, Color

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• I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

  Langston Hughes

  Mean, Racism, Political

  "The Black Man Speaks" l. 1 (1943)

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• Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.

  Langston Hughes

  Hands

  Langston Hughes (2011). “Selected Poems of Langston Hughes”, p.295, Vintage

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• Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

  Langston Hughes

  Music, People, Pulse

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• Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.

  Langston Hughes

  Sea, Let Down, Life Is

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Big Sea: An Autobiography”, p.335, Hill and Wang

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• If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.

  Langston Hughes

  Rights, Government, Buffalo

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.63, Hill and Wang

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  Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

  Langston Hughes

  Summer, Rain, Humor

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.525, University of Missouri Press

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• Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

  Langston Hughes

  Years, Democracy, Today

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.77, University of Missouri Press

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• Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you-- But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.

  Langston Hughes

  Crazy, Looks, Drive Me Crazy

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.29, University of Missouri Press

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

  Langston Hughes

  Sleep, Thinking, Drink

  Langston Hughes (2011). “Selected Poems of Langston Hughes”, p.248, Vintage

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• Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Stars, Clouds

  Langston Hughes (2011). “The Dream Keeper and Other Poems”, p.76, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Road's in front o' me, Nothin' to do but walk.

  Langston Hughes

  Walks, Walking, Fronts

  Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard (2003). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing”, p.65, University of Missouri Press

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• What 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

  Running, Dream, Sweet

  "Harlem" l. 1 (1951)

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