Both 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.
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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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Money and art are far apart.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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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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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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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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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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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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