When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
LANGSTON HUGHESThere’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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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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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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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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There is no color line in art.
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