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 HUGHESI 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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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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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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I 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.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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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 rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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