I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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There is no color line in art.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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