A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
LANGSTON HUGHESI 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.
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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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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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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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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