I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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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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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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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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