Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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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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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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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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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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