We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
LANGSTON HUGHESI swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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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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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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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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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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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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