When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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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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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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