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.
LANGSTON HUGHESThat Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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 have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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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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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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There is no color line in art.
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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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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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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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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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Money and art are far apart.
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