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Langston Hughes Quotes: These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.
         

These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.


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I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?



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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.



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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself



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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.



I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.



I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.



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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.



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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?





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