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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, 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!'
— Langston Hughes
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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 The Collected Poems
Tags: music, life, death
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
— Langston Hughes
Tags: lord, see, democracy, me
Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
— Langston Hughes
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The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.
— Langston Hughes
Tags: meaning, know, people, eyes
Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.
— Langston Hughes
Tags: people, relationship, me, life
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