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.
LANGSTON HUGHESThe depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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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.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Money and art are far apart.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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