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.
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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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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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A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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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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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’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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