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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!

Langston Hughes

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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Acceptance Beautiful Black Myself Self Love White
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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