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.
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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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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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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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
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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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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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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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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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