I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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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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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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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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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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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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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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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