<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381817" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballad Of Langston Hughes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Great man of your time, <br>poet of verse and poet of rhyme<br>you let the white man know<br>how easy it is to let go<br>the built up resentment and woe<br>that's inflicted on skin darker than snow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All you did was pick up the pen.<br>All you did over and again<br>was to relate to the entire world through word<br>all that needed to be heard.<br>Radical political action proposed in poetry<br>was an affront to the white man's psyche.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your words were written for all to understand.<br>You words were written to take command<br>of the ones who heard them<br>spit out like phlegm.<br>But always your hope for equality<br>was written in your poetry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Great seer and seeker your words still live, <br>live in the hearts of the forgotten ones<br>who still feel the frustrating horizons<br>that loom in the future.<br>And to those who've come a long way today<br>your challenge to them is to have their say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edwina+Reizer">Edwina Reizer</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381817" data-title="Ballad Of Langston Hughes de Edwina Reizer" data-description="Great man of your time, poet of verse and poet of rhyme you let the white man know how easy it is to let go the built up resentment and woe that's inflicted on skin darker than snow. All you did was pick up the pen. All you did over and again wa..."></div> </div> </div>

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