Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
LANGSTON HUGHESThe first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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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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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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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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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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