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.
LANGSTON HUGHESOne of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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 am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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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 am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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There is no color line in art.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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