What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
LANGSTON HUGHESPeace 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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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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I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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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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