Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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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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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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I 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!
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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