Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
LANGSTON HUGHESI am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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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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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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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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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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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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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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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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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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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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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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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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There is no color line in art.
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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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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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