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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.

Langston Hughes

Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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Doubt Equality Goodness Kindness Learning Myself Sin
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Beautiful Book Language People Suffering
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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Fall In Love Herself Jealous Woman Yourself
O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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Breathe Equality Freedom Land Liberty Life Myself Patriot
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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Believe Creative Direction Politics Reaction Success Thinking Writing
Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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Drive God Hope Myself Place Time
I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Heaven Myself
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Hard Time Inspirational Motivational People
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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Beginning Black Live Oppression Ourselves Poet Writing
Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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Freedom Heart Myself Sing Wonderful Word
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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Difficult Greatness Help Minority Race
Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Home Live Misery Radio Thinking Yourself
Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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Acceptance Black Blood Inspirational Powerful
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!
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Dreams Head Kind Man Myself World
Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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Heaven Love Time
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Life Lying Opportunity System Truth

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