I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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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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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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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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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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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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