Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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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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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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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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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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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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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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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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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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