Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
LANGSTON HUGHESFolks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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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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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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