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.
LANGSTON HUGHESPeace 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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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 swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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