I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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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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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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