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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

~Langston Hughes

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

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One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.

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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.

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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.

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Violent anger makes me physically ill.

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The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.

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Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.

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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.

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I must never write when I do not want to write.

~Langston Hughes

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 1st, 1902

Died: May 22nd, 1967

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