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Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

For Selma

In places like
Selma, Alabama,
Kids say,
In places like
Chicago and New York...
In places like
Chicago and New York
Kids say,
In places like
London and Paris...
In places like
London and Paris
Kids say,
In places like
Chicago and New York...

#Americans #Blacks

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I look at the world

I look at the world From awakening eyes in a black fac… And this is what I see: This fenced—off narrow space Assigned to me.
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Freedom's Plow

When a man starts out with nothing… When a man starts out with his han… Empty, but clean, When a man starts to build a world… He starts first with himself
Sea Calm

How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water
 1
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…
 2
Question [1]

When the old junk man Death Comes to gather up our bodies And toss them into the sack of obl… I wonder if he will find The corpse of a white multi—millio…
 1
I, Too

I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh,
 1
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…
Merry-Go-Round

Where is the Jim Crow section On this merry—go—round, Mister, cause I want to ride? Down South where I come from White and colored
Helen Adams Keller, by Charles Whitman
Helen Keller

She, In the dark, Found light Brighter than many ever see. She,
 2
Wealth

From Christ to Ghandi Appears this truth— St. Francis of Assisi Proves it, too: Goodness becomes grandeur
Enemy

It would be nice In any case, To someday meet you Face to face Walking down
Ennui

It’s such a Bore Being always Poor.
 2
Negro Speaks of Rivers

I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the w… flow of human blood in human veins My soul has grown deep like the ri… I bathed in the Euphrates when da…
 1
Motto

I play it cool I dig all jive. That's the reason I stay alive. My motto
 2
Madam and the Census Man

The census man, The day he came round, Wanted my name To put it down. I said, Johnson,



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