Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
LANGSTON HUGHESBeauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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There is no color line in art.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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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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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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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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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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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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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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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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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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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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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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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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