When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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Money and art are far apart.
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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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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
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Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.
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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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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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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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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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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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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
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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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