A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
LANGSTON HUGHESYet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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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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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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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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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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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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