I 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.
LANGSTON HUGHESI do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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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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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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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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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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