Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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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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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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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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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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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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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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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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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 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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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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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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There is no color line in art.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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