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!
LANGSTON HUGHESLife is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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 swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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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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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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