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Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes

“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.”

- Langston Hughes

Source/Notes: Not So Simple: The Simple Stories by Langston Hughes (1996 edition), University of Missouri Press - ISBN: 9780826210883

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Langston Hughes

“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.”

- Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes

“Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”

- Langston Hughes

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“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”

- Langston Hughes

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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

Source/Notes: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Autobiography: I wonder as I wander (2003 edition), University of Missouri Press - ISBN: 9780826214348

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Langston Hughes

“I will not take "but" for an answer.”

- Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes

“It's such a Bore Being always Poor.”

- Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes

“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”

- Langston Hughes

Source/Notes: The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (2011 edition), Random House LLC - ISBN: 9780307803153

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Langston Hughes

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

- Langston Hughes

Source/Notes: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs (2002 edition), University of Missouri Press - ISBN: 9780826213945

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Langston Hughes

“Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.”

- Langston Hughes

Source/Notes: From the poem "Roland Hayes Beaten" - One-Way Ticket (1949)

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Langston Hughes

“We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.”

- Langston Hughes

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“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?”

- Langston Hughes

Source/Notes: Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (1999 edition), Profile Books - ISBN: 9781852421274

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Langston Hughes

“When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.”

- Langston Hughes

Source/Notes: The Early Simple Stories (2002 edition), University of Missouri Press - ISBN: 9780826263858

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Langston Hughes

“I, too, sing America. 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.”

- Langston Hughes

Source/Notes: I, Too, Sing America, in the magazine Survey Graphic (March 1925); reprinted in Selected Poems (1959)

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