Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
LANGSTON HUGHESPolitics 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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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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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’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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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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