Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
LANGSTON HUGHESOut of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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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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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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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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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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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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