Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
LANGSTON HUGHESThere’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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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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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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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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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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I 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.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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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.
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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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