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.
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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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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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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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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My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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