Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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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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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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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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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