Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
LANGSTON HUGHESBooks -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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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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There is no color line in art.
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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