I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
LANGSTON HUGHESYet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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There is no color line in art.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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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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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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