My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
LANGSTON HUGHESNever look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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.
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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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