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.
LANGSTON HUGHESPolitics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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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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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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