Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
LANGSTON HUGHESIf 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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 am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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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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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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