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.
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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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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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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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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