Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
LANGSTON HUGHESWhen poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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 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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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
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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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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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There is no color line in art.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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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