Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
LANGSTON HUGHESI don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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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 tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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