Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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.
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There is no color line in art.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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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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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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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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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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