If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
LANGSTON HUGHESThis 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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 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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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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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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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