The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
LANGSTON HUGHESNegro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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