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.
LANGSTON HUGHESI 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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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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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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Money and art are far apart.
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