The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
LANGSTON HUGHESThe calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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I 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.
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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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