My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
LANGSTON HUGHESMoney and art are far apart.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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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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