Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
LANGSTON HUGHESThe 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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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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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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