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.
LANGSTON HUGHESMost musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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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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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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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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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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