Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
LANGSTON HUGHESBeauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Out of love, No regrets– Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets– Though the return Be never.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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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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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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