I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
LANGSTON HUGHESRoad’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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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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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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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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I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She’ll make you so jealous, you’ll bust!
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