Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
LANGSTON HUGHESReach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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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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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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The 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.
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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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