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Langston Hughes was a 20th-century American writer and social activist. James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Humor — Witty observations and humorous takes on everyday life

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“Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
— Langston Hughes
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“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.”
— Langston Hughes
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“Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be.”
— Langston Hughes
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“So since I'm still here livin',I guess I will live on.I could've died for love--But for livin' I was born.”
— Langston Hughes
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“Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-”
— Langston Hughes
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“I went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't,So I jumped in and sank.”
— Langston Hughes
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