Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
LANGSTON HUGHESKeep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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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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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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