Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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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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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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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O, 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.
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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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