I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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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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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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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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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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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