A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
LANGSTON HUGHESThere’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Money and art are far apart.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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