Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
LANGSTON HUGHESI am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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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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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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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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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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