Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud. ✨ Langston Hug…

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Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud. ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Poems, 1951-1967, p.171, University of Missouri Press
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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 (2011). Selected Poems of Langston Hughes, p.121, Vintage
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 (2002). Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs
I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend. ✨ Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard (2003). The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: … ▶
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. ✨ Langston Hughes (2002). The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs, p.525, Univers … ▶
Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind. ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950, p.199, University … ▶

Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud. ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Poems, 1951-1967, p.171, University of Missouri Press

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