I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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