Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
LANGSTON HUGHESI’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Money and art are far apart.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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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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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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