Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
LANGSTON HUGHESThe calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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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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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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