I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
LANGSTON HUGHESHang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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There is no color line in art.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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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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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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