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Ordinary Negroes hadn't heard of the Negro Renaissance. And if they had, it hadn't raised their wages any.

Langston Hughes

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

Langston Hughes

Dream within a dream,
Our dream deferred.
Good morning, daddy!
Ain't you heard?

Langston Hughes

What happens
to a dream deferred?
Daddy, ain't you heard?

Langston Hughes

Good morning, daddy!
Ain't you heard
The boogie-woogie rumble
Of a dream deferred?

Langston Hughes

Good evening, daddy
I know you've heard
The boogie-woogie rumble
Of a dream deferred

Langston Hughes

Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
I heard a Negro play.
Down on Lenox Avenue the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway.
He did a lazy sway.
To the tune o' those Weary Blues.

Langston Hughes

Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.

Langston Hughes