Being true Quote by Langston Hughes

“Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.”

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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?

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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

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Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country…

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