Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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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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