The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
LANGSTON HUGHESBoth 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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There is no color line in art.
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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 wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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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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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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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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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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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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