I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
LANGSTON HUGHESA dream deferred is a dream denied.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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