We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
LANGSTON HUGHESI am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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There is no color line in art.
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