I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
LANGSTON HUGHESEverything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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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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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.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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