PoemMotto
Author / PoetLangston Hughes
ReferenceFrom The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

I play it cool
I dig all jive.
That’s the reason
I stay alive.

My motto
As I live and learn,

is:
Dig And Be Dug

In Return.

Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
1 Feb 1902 - 22 May 1967
Movement: Harlem Renaissance
Awards: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

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Madam and the Census Man

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