Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhy should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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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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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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There is no color line in art.
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