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.
LANGSTON HUGHESI have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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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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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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Money and art are far apart.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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