Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
LANGSTON HUGHESI don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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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.
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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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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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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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This 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.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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There is no color line in art.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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