Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
LANGSTON HUGHESSometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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.
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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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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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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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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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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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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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