Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
LANGSTON HUGHESI swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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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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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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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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Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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