There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
LANGSTON HUGHESI wish the rent Was heaven sent.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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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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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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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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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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