I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
LANGSTON HUGHESWell, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
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Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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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Money and art are far apart.
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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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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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