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.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhen you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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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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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A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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Politics 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.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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