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“Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover To a cross roads tree.”

— Langston Hughes

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Source

Title
Wikiquote: Langston Hughes
Type
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Context

"Song for a Dark Girl" (l. 1-4), from Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)

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Hughes, Langston. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Langston Hughes. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes

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