We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
LANGSTON HUGHESI tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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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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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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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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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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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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 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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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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