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Langston Hughes, Poet
John Kerry's campaign slogan is "Let America be America again."
Which comes from a poem published in 1938 by the Harlem renaissance poet Langston Hughes.
[...]
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
[...]
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain--
All, all the stretch of these great green states--
And make America again!
[...]
http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1473
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''...testimony by the poet Langston Hughes on March 24, 1953, before the Senate Committee on Government Operations' Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The subcommittee, chaired by Senator Joseph McCarthy, interrogated 395 people between 1953 and 1954 in closed-door hearings designed to determine whom among them to try in public session.''
ROY COHN: Do you remember writing this: "Good-morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on"?
LANGSTON HUGHES: Yes, sir, I wrote that.
COHN: Did you write this, "Put one more 'S' in the USA to make it Soviet. The USA when we take control will be the USSA then"?
HUGHES: Yes, sir, I wrote that.
COHN: Were you kidding when you wrote those things? What did you mean by those?
HUGHES: Would you like me to give you an interpretation of that?
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1111/is_1843_307/ai_111695427
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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
Read by Langston Hughes
http://archive.salon.com/audio/poetry/2001/02/15/langston_hughes/index
MP3 Poem
"Negro Speaks of Rivers"
http://media.salon.com/mp3s/hughes_rivers021401.mp3
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