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 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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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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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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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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