We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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