LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
LANGSTON HUGHESI do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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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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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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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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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.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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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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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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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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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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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