I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
LANGSTON HUGHESEverybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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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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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 kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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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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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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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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