Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
LANGSTON HUGHESI’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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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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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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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.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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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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