When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
LANGSTON HUGHESI dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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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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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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