Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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There is no color line in art.
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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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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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