Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhen peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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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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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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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!
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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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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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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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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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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