Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
LANGSTON HUGHESThere’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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