Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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