Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
LANGSTON HUGHESSometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Money and art are far apart.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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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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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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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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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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