Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
LANGSTON HUGHES
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.
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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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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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!
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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