Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
LANGSTON HUGHESA 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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Money and art are far apart.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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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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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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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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