Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
LANGSTON HUGHESWords 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Money and art are far apart.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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