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.
LANGSTON HUGHESWell, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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