Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
LANGSTON HUGHESNever look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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