It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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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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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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