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Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

~Langston Hughes

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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

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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.

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I will not take 'but' for an answer.

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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

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Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.

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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!'

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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

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Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.

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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 1st, 1902

Died: May 22nd, 1967

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