The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
LANGSTON HUGHESO, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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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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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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