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.
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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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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Money and art are far apart.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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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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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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.
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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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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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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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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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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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
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