Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
LANGSTON HUGHESWe build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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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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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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