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Men Quotes by Langston Hughes
- Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black…
- To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or…
- A world I dream where black or white, whatever race you be, will share the bounties of the earth and every man is free
- Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought…
- When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out,…
- When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
- Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained…
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