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.
LANGSTON HUGHESNever look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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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.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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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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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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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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