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.
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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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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Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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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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Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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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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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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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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