If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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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Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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I 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!
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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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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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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