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.
LANGSTON HUGHESLIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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 an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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