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.
LANGSTON HUGHESLove is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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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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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Money and art are far apart.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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