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Yeah Jesus could turn water in to wine, but he didn't share. Douche. ~ Anthony Langston
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Hold onto your dreams ~ Langston Hughes
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I need to do something about college, but I'm not sure what."

"Where have you decided to apply?"

"Nowhere yet. Any time I think about the schools I've visited, I feel overwhelmed. The campuses are so big that I know I'll get lost. I dread making new friends. And the professors acted too busy to deal with someone like me. My parents will be wasting a huge amount of money."

"Your fears are no different than most high school seniors." He studied me thoughtfully. "Must you go to college?"

I opened my mouth to say Of course, I must - and then shut it again. The concept didn't bother me nearly as much as it should have. Skipping college would be crazy. Right? It was hard enough for a disabled person to find a job, but being disabled with no degree would make it hopeless. "I don't have a choice."

"Perhaps you have more choices than you realize. ~ Elizabeth Langston
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Strange how knowing our story had no happy ending had freed us to live in the moment. We weren't guy and girl. We weren't damaged and terminal. We were just now. ~ Elizabeth Langston
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Have you ever experienced human love?"

"Yes. Once."

Regret shadowed his face. "Then why would you be willing to repeat it?"

"What we learn is worth more than what we lose. ~ Elizabeth Langston
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left. ~ Langston Hughes
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Question and Answer
Durban, Birmingham,
Cape Town, Alabama,
Johannesburg, Watts,
The earth around
Struggling, fighting,
Dying
for what?
A world to gain.
Groping, hoping,
Waiting
for what?
A world to gain.
Dreams kicked asunder,
Why not go under?
There's a world to gain.
But suppose I don't want it,
Why take it?
To remake it. ~ Langston Hughes
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You see, books had been happening to me. ~ Langston Hughes
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Of course Covarrubias wasn't a negro, but how he caught the darky spirit! ~ Langston Hughes
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better. ~ Langston Hughes
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Life is a egg you have to be patient and carefull with it or it will brake ~ Langston Hughes
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His arm slid around my shoulders and drew me to him. It was odd, sitting there under the veil of darkness, watching the neighborhood settle down. Lamps burned in windows. TVs flickered. A few houses down, the rhythmic thud of a basketball on concrete and muffled laughter alerted us to the only other people outside on this glorious fall night.

"This is a perfect date," I said.

He tensed. "You'd call it a date?"

"Sure. You wouldn't?"

He looked down at me, his eyes glittering in the faint light. "I thought American girls liked more formality in a date."

"More money is what you mean." I smiled. "It's a date. Don't argue with me."

"I never do. ~ Elizabeth Langston
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. ~ Langston Hughes
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There it was again, that strange sensation. Sort of floaty. Completely lovely. "Why aren't we kissing yet?"

"The same question had crossed my mind." He leaned closer and pressed his lips to mine.

I could never get enough of this sweet, crazy kissing. How did anyone ever get anything done when they were falling in love? ~ Elizabeth Langston
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LIBERTY!
FREEDOM!
DEMOCRACY!
True anyhow no matter how many
Liars use those words. ~ Langston Hughes
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I hope I never love someone so much that they could hurt me the way Langston was hurt. ~ Rachel Cohn
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Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale. ~ Langston Hughes
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I would rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. ~Lucille Ball ~ K. Langston
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Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between. ~ Langston Hughes
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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. ~ Langston Hughes
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Gather up In the arms of your love - Those who expect No love from above. ~ Langston Hughes
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Peace
We passed their graves:
The dead men there,
Winners or losers,
Did not care.
In the dark
They could not see
Who had gained
The victory. ~ Langston Hughes
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I am so tired of waiting.
Aren't you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two
and see what worms are eating
at the rind. ~ Langston Hughes
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You can't kill rock and roll without a silver bullet because she's a werewolf. ~ Anthony Langston
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Oh, there was no doubt about it, I wanted to fuck her. I wanted to fuck her so bad I couldn't sit properly. I wanted to fuck her, make sweet love to her, do very bad things to her. It was crazy fucking beautiful - the need I had for this woman. ~ K. Langston
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Whatever life throws at you, you must keep on keeping on. ~ J.D. Langston
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While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken. ~ Langston Hughes
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What happens to a dream deferred? ~ Langston Hughes
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Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on ~ Langston Hughes
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall. ~ Langston Hughes
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Good people are not that good. To tell the truth, if I were white, no matter how much I loved Negroes, I doubt that I would submit myself to Jim Crow living conditions just to prove my love." "Neither would I," said Simple. "Then you would not be very good, either." "No," said Simple, "but I would be white. ~ Langston Hughes
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Just because I loves you–
That's de reason why
Ma soul is full of color
Like de wings of a butterfly.

Just because I loves you
That's de reason why
Ma heart's a fluttering aspen leaf
When you pass by. ~ Langston Hughes
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In the chemistry lab at school, did you ever hold a test tube, pouring in liquids and powders and seeing nothing happen until a certain powder is poured in and then everything begins to smoke and fume, bubble and boil, hiss to foam, and sometimes even explode? The tube is suddenly full of action and movement and life. Well there are people like those certain liquids or powders; at a given moment they come into a room, or into a town, even into a country-and the place is never the same again. Things bubble, boil, change. Sometimes the whole world is changed. ~ Langston Hughes
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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness. ~ Langston Hughes
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Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything. ~ Langston Hughes
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As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have my own window to shoot from. ~ 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
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I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage. ~ Ben Vereen
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Freedom
Is a strong seed
Planted
In a great need.
I live here, too.
I want freedom
Just as you. ~ Langston Hughes
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Negroes
Sweet and docile,
Meek, humble, and kind:
Beware the day
They change their minds!
Wind
In the cotton fields,
Gentle breeze:
Beware the hour
It uproots trees! ~ Langston Hughes
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Because shoes got by devilish ways will burn your feet. ~ Langston Hughes
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She had fit him into a one-dimensional mold during their first meeting, and had done so with ease. Langston, too. How many others had she judged and set aside like that, thinking them no more than a one-sided piece of paper? ~ Charlie N. Holmberg
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CHAPTER 4 WHEN FEAR OUTSHINES COURAGE A secret POV ~ K. Langston
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Island

Wave of sorrow,
Do not drown me now:

I see the island
Still ahead somehow.

I see the island
And its sands are fair:

Wave of sorrow,
Take me there. ~ Langston Hughes
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When you read the words of Langston Hughes you are reading the words of a Black Gay man. When you read the words of Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Angelina Weld Grimké, poets of the Harlem Renaissance, you are reading the words of Black Lesbians. When you listen to the life-affirming voices of Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey, you are hearing Black Lesbian women. When you see the plays and read the words of Lorraine Hansberry, you are reading the words of a women who loved women deeply. ~ Audre Lorde
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Since the day I met you, I've felt like I could fly. My heart is lighter and when I'm with you, there's no place else I'd rather be. Your beautiful smile and that feisty mouth have brought my dull world back to life. ~ K. Langston
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I asked you, baby,
If you understood-
You told me that you didn't,
But you thought you would. ~ Langston Hughes
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I started to write: Langston deserves to be sick. But I erased that and wrote, Okay. I'll make him some. ~ Rachel Cohn
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Justice
That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes. ~ Langston Hughes
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Don't judge me if you don't really know me. ~ Seth Langston
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true. ~ Langston Hughes
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I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges. ~ Langston Hughes
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I wanna punch you in the throat right now. Do you think that's sexy? ~ K. Langston
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. ~ Langston Hughes
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My father hated Negroes. ~ Langston Hughes
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The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that. ~ Rachel Cohn
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I want to walk through this life with you by my side. Your hand in mine. Forever. ~ K. Langston
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed -
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above. ~ Langston Hughes
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants. ~ Langston Hughes
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I look at my own body
With eyes no longer blind-
And I see that my own hands can make
The world that's in my mind. ~ Langston Hughes
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!' ~ Langston Hughes
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My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong. ~ Langston Hughes
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Oppression
Now dreams
Are not available
To the dreamers,
Nor songs
To the singers.
In some lands
Dark night
And cold steel
Prevail
But the dream
Will come back,
And the song
Break
Its jail. ~ Langston Hughes
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They rung my bell to ask me.
Could I recommend a maid.
I said, yes, your momma. ~ Langston Hughes
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I will take your heart.
I will take your soul out of your body
As though I were God.
I will not be satisfied
With the little words you say to me.
I will not be satisfied
With the touch of your hand
Nor the sweet of your lips alone.
I will take your heart for mine.
I will take your soul.
I will be God when it comes to you. ~ Langston Hughes
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Your explanation depresses me," I said.
"Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple. ~ Langston Hughes
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There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred. ~ Langston Hughes
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You don't look like a genie."
"Palazzo pants and sequined vests don't cut it in the United States. ~ Elizabeth Langston
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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
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But Langston repeated, Lily, you just don't understand. What you need is someone to keep you occupied. You need a boyfriend. ~ Rachel Cohn
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So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love
But for livin' I was born. ~ Langston Hughes
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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.
Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.
Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed
I, too, am America. ~ Langston Hughes
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Life Is Fine"

I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.

I came up once and hollered!
I came up twice and cried!
If that water hadn't a-been so cold
I might've sunk and died.

But it was Cold in that water! It was cold!

I took the elevator
Sixteen floors above the ground.
I thought about my baby
And thought I would jump down.

I stood there and I hollered!
I stood there and I cried!
If it hadn't a-been so high
I might've jumped and died.

But it was High up there! It was high!

So since I'm still here livin',
I guess I will live on.
I could've died for love--
But for livin' I was born

Though you may hear me holler,
And you may see me cry--
I'll be dogged, sweet baby,
If you gonna see me die.

Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine! ~ Langston Hughes
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind, ~ Langston Hughes
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When Hughes writes, in the first two lines of his poem, "Let America be America again/ Let it be the dream it used to be," he acknowledges that America is primarily a dream, a hope, an aspiration, that may never be fully attainable, but that spurs us to be better, to be larger. He follows this with the repeated counterpoint, "America never was America to me," and through the rest of this remarkable poem he alternates between the oppressed and the wronged of America, and the great dreams that they have for their country, that can never be extinguished. ~ Harry Belafonte
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I loved his strength and determination. I loved how much pleasure he got from doing things right. I loved that life was better simply because he was around. ~ Elizabeth Langston
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I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face. ~ Langston Hughes
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Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be. ~ Langston Hughes
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss ~ Langston Hughes
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Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism. ~ Langston Hughes
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The speaker catches fire
looking at their faces.
His words
jump down to stand
in listener's places. ~ Langston Hughes
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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. ~ Langston Hughes
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We must never forget that our small, daily acts can total a great sum of love. They can be the stars by which others find their way through the dark voyage of life. ~ Jamie Langston Turner
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Say it. Say your mine, Maddie. You own my heart now, baby. I gotta have yours too. ~ K. Langston
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling. ~ Langston Hughes
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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. ~ Langston Hughes
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Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud. ~ Langston Hughes
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The lazy, laughing South
With blood on its mouth.
The sunny-faced South,
Beast-strong,
Idiot-brained.
The child-minded South
Scratching in the dead fire's ashes
For a Negro's bones.
Cotton and the moon,
Warmth, earth, warmth,
The sky, the sun, the stars,
The magnolia-scented South.
Beautiful, like a woman,
Seductive as a dark-eyed whore,
Passionate, cruel,
Honey-lipped, syphilitic -
That is the South.
And I, who am black, would love her
But she spits in my face.
And I, who am black,
Would give her many rare gifts
But she turns her back upon me.
So now I seek the North -
The cold-faced North,
For she, they say,
Is a kinder mistress,
And in her house my children
May escape the spell of the South. ~ Langston Hughes
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Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die? ~ Langston Hughes
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I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long. ~ Langston Hughes
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves. ~ Langston Hughes
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Suicide Note:
The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.
-Langston Hughes ~ Kay Redfield Jamison
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THEY WERE PEOPLE who went in for Negroes - Michael and Anne - the Carraways. But not in the social-service, philanthropic sort of way, no. They saw no use in helping a race that was already too charming and naive and lovely for words. Leave them unspoiled and just enjoy them, Michael and Anne felt. So they went in for the Art of Negroes - the dancing that had such jungle life about it, the songs that were so simple and fervent, the poetry that was so direct, so real. They never tried to influence that art, they only bought it and raved over it, and copied it. For they were artists, too. ~ Langston Hughes
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Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of the disuniting of America and warnings of the clash of civilizations. As Langston Hughes sang, Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe. ~ Ronald Takaki
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The sea is a desert of waves,
A wilderness of water. ~ Langston Hughes
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Memory loss is strange. It's like showing up for a movie after it's started. I'm sure I've missed something. I don't know if it's important or not. So I do the best I can to lose myself in the story and hope the gaps don't matter. Later, I can look it up, or someone will remind me, or maybe it's perfectly fine to not know. ~ Elizabeth Langston
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours. ~ Langston Hughes
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Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language. ~ Langston Hughes
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However, I believe everything happens for a reason. There's a reason we met, there's a reason you're here tonight, and there's a reason why I feel the way I do about you. I can't ignore any of that. I won't. I don't fuck around with fate, Maddie. You shouldn't either. ~ K. Langston
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This is the danger of reading. One never knows what will be stumbled upon, what old embers may leap again to flame.
p 241 ~ Jamie Langston Turner
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