The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
LANGSTON HUGHESMisery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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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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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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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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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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