It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
LANGSTON HUGHESEverything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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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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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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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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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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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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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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