There is no color line in art.
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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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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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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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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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