Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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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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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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