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.
LANGSTON HUGHESO, 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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 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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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