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

Langston Hughes

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Breathe Country Equality
Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Detail Happiness Pleasure Search Seek
Money and art are far apart.
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Art Money One Liner
Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Laughter Yourself
Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Born Death Hard Love Yourself
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Grave Himself Poet Poetry Politics
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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Care Different Each Other Ethnicity Nation Togetherness Unity
But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Change Difference Help Practical Time Transformation Writing
To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Book Creation Man Professional Story Writing
The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Finish Start Way Yourself
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.
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Alive Learning Myself Return Stay
There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Dreams Lost Travel
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Deep Growth River Soul
We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Build Freedom Mountain Ourselves Stand Strong Temple
I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Democracy God Government Myself See
I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Dare Morning Myself Start Thinking

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

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