We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.
LANGSTON HUGHESThe past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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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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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Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed – Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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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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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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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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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind.
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I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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