I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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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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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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