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Quotes by James Langston Hughes

I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.

James Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)
Source: The Weary Blues, 1926
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It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white," hidden in the aspirations of his people, to "Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!"

James Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)
 
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Quick, sunrise, come! Sunrise out of Africa, Quick, come!

James Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)
Source: Junior Addict, 1967
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I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in Human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

James Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)
Source: The Negro Speaks of Rivers, 1926
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

James Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)
Source: Negro, 1926
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

James Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)
 
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Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?

James Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)
Source: dream boogie, 1951
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, Why Democracy means, Everybody but me.

James Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)
Source: “The Black Man Speaks,” in Jim Crow’s Last Stand, 1943
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Wear it Like a banner For the proud- Not like a shroud.

James Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)
Source: Color, 1943
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I will not take "but" for an answer.

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