Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
LANGSTON HUGHESMoney and art are far apart.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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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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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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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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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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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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