Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
LANGSTON HUGHESCheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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