Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
LANGSTON HUGHESI’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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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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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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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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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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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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