I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
LANGSTON HUGHESThere is no color line in art.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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