Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
LANGSTON HUGHESLife dosent frighten me at all.
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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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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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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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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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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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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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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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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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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