LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
LANGSTON HUGHESI look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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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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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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