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Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

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When the old junk man Death
Comes to gather up our bodies
And toss them into the sack of oblivion,
I wonder if he will find
The corpse of a white multi—millionaire
Worth more pennies of eternity,
Than the black torso of
A Negro cotton—picker.

#Americans #Blacks

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The Weary Blues

Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow… I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other ni… By the pale dull pallor of an old…
Ballad of the Gypsy

I went to the Gypsy’s. Gypsy settin’ all alone. I said, Tell me, Gypsy, When will my gal be home? Gypsy said, Silver,
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Peace

We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark
Let America be America Again

Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is… (America never was America to me.…
Madam's Past History

My name is Johnson— Madam Alberta K. The Madam stands for business. I’m smart that way. I had a
To Certain

You sicken me with lies, With truthful lies. And with your pious faces. And your wide, out—stretched, mock—welcome, Christian hands.
Madam and Her Madam

I worked for a woman, She wasn’t mean— But she had a twelve—room House to clean. Had to get breakfast,
Wake

Tell all my mourners To mourn in red — Cause there ain’t no sense In my bein’ dead.
Songs

I sat there singing her Songs in the dark. She said; 'I do not understand The words’.
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Dream Variations

To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done. Then rest at cool evening
Motto

I play it cool I dig all jive. That's the reason I stay alive. My motto
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The card trick, by John George Brown
Democracy

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right
Dinner Guest: Me

I know I am The Negro Problem Being wined and dined, Answering the usual questions That come to white mind
Ennui

It’s such a Bore Being always Poor.
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God the Father with the symbols of the fourth apostles (tetramorphos), know as The Trinity, by Pieter Coecke van Aelst
Gods

The ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond and jade, Sit silently on their temple shelv… While the people



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