Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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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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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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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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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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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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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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