Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
LANGSTON HUGHESRoad’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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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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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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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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