Peace 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.
LANGSTON HUGHESPolitics 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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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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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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There is no color line in art.
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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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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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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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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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