Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
LANGSTON HUGHESOut of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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