Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
LANGSTON HUGHESLove is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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