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“The stars went out and so did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.”

— Langston Hughes

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Wikiquote: Langston Hughes
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Context

"The Weary Blues ", in The Weary Blues (1926)

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

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