Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
LANGSTON HUGHESLIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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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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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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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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