Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
LANGSTON HUGHESBut there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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There is no color line in art.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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