Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
LANGSTON HUGHESA world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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