Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhy should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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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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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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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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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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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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