Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
LANGSTON HUGHESI dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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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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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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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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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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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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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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