I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
LANGSTON HUGHESReach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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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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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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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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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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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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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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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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