Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhen peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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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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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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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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