Langston Hughes

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Hughes, Langston. "I, Too." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, epilogue.

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Hughes, Langston. "Harlem." Montage of a Dream Deferred. Holt, 1951.

I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.

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The Black Man Speaks

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Hughes, Langston. "The Black Man Speaks." Jim Crow’s Last Stand. Negro Publications Society of America, 1943, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. "Let America Be America Again." Esquire Magazine, July 1936.

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Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Crisis, June 1921, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. “Dreams.” The World Tomorrow, May 1923, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. “Dreams.” The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on Art, Race, Politics, and World Affairs. Vol. 9, University of Missouri Press, 2001.

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Hughes, Langston. "Negro." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. "Proem." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Crisis, June 1921, I. 5.

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Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, I. 5.

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Hughes, Langston. "I've Known Rivers." The Big Sea. Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.

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Hughes, Langston. "Note In Music." Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, Jan. 1936.

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Hughes, Langston. "Note In Music." The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The Poems: 1921-1940, edited by Arnold Rampersad. Vol. 1, University of Missouri Press, 2001.