Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
LANGSTON HUGHESLet America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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There is no color line in art.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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