There is no color line in art.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhy should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Politics 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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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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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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 a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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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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