For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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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 wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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