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Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

Minstrel Man

Because my mouth
Is wide with laughter
And my throat
Is deep with song,
You do not think
I suffer after
I have held my pain
So long?
 
Because my mouth
Is wide with laughter,
You do not hear
My inner cry?
Because my feet
Are gay with dancing,
You do not know
I die?

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Preferido o celebrado por...
Laura Alaniz
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In the Quarter of the Negroes Where the doors are doors of paper Dust of dingy atoms Blows a scratchy sound. Amorphous jack—o’—Lanterns caper
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To Artina

I will take you heart. I will take your soul out of your… As though I were God. I will not be satisfied With the touch of your hand
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I catch the pattern Of your silence Before you speak I do not need To hear a word.
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Now dreams Are not available To the dreamers, Nor songs To the singers.
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To Certain

You sicken me with lies, With truthful lies. And with your pious faces. And your wide, out—stretched, mock—welcome, Christian hands.
Bound No’th Blues

Goin’ down the road, Lawd, Goin’ down the road. Down the road, Lawd, Way, way down the road. Got to find somebody
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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
A Dream Deferred

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run?
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Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard The boogie—woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely:
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The rent man knocked. He said, Howdy—do? I said, What Can I do for you? He said, You know
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Final Curve

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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I am God— Without one friend, Alone in my purity World without end. Below me young lovers
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