The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
LANGSTON HUGHESLIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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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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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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