Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
LANGSTON HUGHESOne of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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