When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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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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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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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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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 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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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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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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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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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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