I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
LANGSTON HUGHESKeep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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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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