But 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.
LANGSTON HUGHESReach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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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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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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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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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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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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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