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

Langston Hughes

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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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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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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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