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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.

It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.

Langston Hughes
Country, Race, People
Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes”, p.38, University of Missouri Press

Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Langston Hughes
Country, World, Resurrection
Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.408, University of Missouri Press

Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that will not stock a book by a Negro writer, not even as a gift? There are towns where Negro newspapers and magazines cannot be sold except surreptitiously. There are American magazines that have never published anything by Negroes. There are film studios that have never hired a Negro writer. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

Langston Hughes
Country, Book, Color

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