Life for me ain't been no crystal stair ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The …

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Life for me ain't been no crystal stair ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940, p.60, University of Missouri Press
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I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long. ✨ Langston Hughes (2002). The Early Simple Stories, University of Missouri
Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose. ✨ Langston Hughes (2011). The Panther and the Lash, p.57, Vint … ▶
Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding. ✨ Langston Hughes (2011). Selected Poems of Langston Hughes, p.100, Vintage
The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow. ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Poems, 1951-1967, p.172, University of Missouri Press
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Life for me ain't been no crystal stair ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940, p.60, University of Missouri Press

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