I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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There is no color line in art.
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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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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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 system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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