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.
LANGSTON HUGHESI am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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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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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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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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