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.
LANGSTON HUGHESIf 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Money and art are far apart.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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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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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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