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.
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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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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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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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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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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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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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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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