Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Langston Hughes

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

Listen closely:
You'll hear their feet
Beating out and beating out a -

You think
It's a happy beat?

Listen to it closely:
Ain't you heard
something underneath
like a -

What did I say?

Sure,
I'm happy!
Take it away!
Dream Boogie

Hey, pop!
Re-bop!
Mop!

Y-e-a-h!

Langston Hughes

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They rung my bell to ask me.
Could I recommend a maid.
I said, yes, your momma.

Langston Hughes

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I look at my own body
With eyes no longer blind—
And I see that my own hands can make
The world that’s in my mind.
Then let us hurry, comrades,
The road to find.

Langston Hughes

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