Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
LANGSTON HUGHESEverything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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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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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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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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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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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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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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