My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
LANGSTON HUGHESSummer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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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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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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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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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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