Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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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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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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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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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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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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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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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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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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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