When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
LANGSTON HUGHESBut 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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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.
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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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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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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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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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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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