But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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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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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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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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