Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
LANGSTON HUGHESThat 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.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!
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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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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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Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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