Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
LANGSTON HUGHESI am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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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’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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