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.
LANGSTON HUGHESAn artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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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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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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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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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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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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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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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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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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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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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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There is no color line in art.
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