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• We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

  Langston Hughes

  Strong, Kwanzaa, Mountain

  Langston Hughes, Christopher C. De Santis (1995). “Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62”, p.5, University of Illinois Press

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• 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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  Powerful, Men, Blood

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• Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

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  Life, Music, Death

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.251, University of Missouri Press

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• I will not take "but" for an answer.

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  Attitude, Answers, Literature

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, University of Missouri

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• I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

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  Mean, Racism, Political

  "The Black Man Speaks" l. 1 (1943)

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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.

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  Running, Turns, Corners

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.210, University of Missouri Press

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• Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!

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  Fall, Together, Atoms

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.7, Hill and Wang

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• Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.

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  Hands

  Langston Hughes (2011). “Selected Poems of Langston Hughes”, p.295, Vintage

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• 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.

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  Strong, Brother, Laughing

  "I, Too" l. 1 (1925)

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• Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!

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  Lying, Land, Rivers

  Langston Hughes (2004). “Vintage Hughes”, Vintage

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• Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.

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  Dream, America, Used

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.131, University of Missouri Press

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• Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.

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  Arms, No Love

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• Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

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  Music, People, Pulse

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• Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose.

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  Believe, News, Might

  Langston Hughes (2011). “The Panther and the Lash”, p.57, Vintage

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• There is no color line in art.

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  Color, Lines

  "Simple's Uncle Sam: With a New Introduction by Akiba Sullivan Harper".

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• We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

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  Beautiful, Strong, Dark

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.36, University of Missouri Press

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• 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, Radio, Misery

  Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard (2003). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing”, p.173, University of Missouri Press

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• I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

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  Sleep, Sunset, New Orleans

  "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" l. 1 (1921)

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• The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm

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  Rhythm Of Life, Jazz, Life Is

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.32, University of Missouri Press

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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.

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  Rain, Kissing, Water

  Langston Hughes (2015). “Sail Away”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Girl, Art, Children

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.77, University of Missouri Press

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• Money and art are far apart.

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  Art

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.222, University of Missouri Press

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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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  White, Black, Prejudice

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.19, Hill and Wang

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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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  Writing, Worst, Best Poem

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes”, p.65, University of Missouri Press

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• I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.

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  Long, Black History, Democracy

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, University of Missouri

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