Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
LANGSTON HUGHESLet 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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 calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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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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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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