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.
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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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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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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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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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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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.
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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.
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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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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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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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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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