Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
LANGSTON HUGHESEverybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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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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