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Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

Easy Boogie

Down in the bass
That steady beat
Walking walking walking
Like marching feet.
 
Down in the bass
They easy roll,
Rolling like I like it
In my soul.
 
Riffs, smears, breaks.
 
Hey, Lawdy Mama!
Do you hear what I said?
Easy like I rock it
In my bed!

#Americans #Blacks

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Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you— Then, it will be true. I wonder if it’s that simple?
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My People

The night is beautiful, So the faces of my people. The stars are beautiful, So the eyes of my people. Beautiful, also, is the sun.
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Cross

My old man’s a white old man And my old mother’s black. If ever I cursed my white old man I take my curses back. If ever I cursed my black old mot…
Jazzonia

Oh, silver tree! Oh, shining rivers of the soul! In a Harlem cabaret Six long—headed jazzers play. A dancing girl whose eyes are bold
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Madam and the Phone Bill

You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE? O.K.ed it when? My goodness, Central That was then!
You and your whole race.

You and your whole race. Look down upon the town in which y… And be ashamed. Look down upon white folks And upon yourselves
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Minstrel Man

Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think
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April Rain Song

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head w… Let the rain sing you a lullaby. The rain makes still pools on the… The rain makes running pools in th…
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Juke Box Love Song

I could take the Harlem night and wrap around you, Take the neon lights and make a cr… Take the Lenox Avenue busses, Taxis, subways,
Motto

I play it cool I dig all jive. That's the reason I stay alive. My motto
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I Dream a World

I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love will bless the earth And peace its paths adorn I dream a world where all
The Ballad of the Landlord

Landlord, landlord, My roof has sprung a leak. Don’t you 'member I told you abou… Way last week? Landlord, landlord,
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Justice

That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are w… Her bandage hides two festering so… That once perhaps were eyes.
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Night Funeral in Harlem

Night funeral In Harlem: Where did they get Them two fine cars? Insurance man, he did not pay—
Lincoln Monument: Washington

Let’s go see Old Abe Sitting in the marble and the moon… Sitting lonely in the marble and t… Quiet for ten thousand centuries,… Quiet for a million, million years…



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