A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
LANGSTON HUGHESThe only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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There is no color line in art.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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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 America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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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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