The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
LANGSTON HUGHESLet 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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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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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Money and art are far apart.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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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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