Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
LANGSTON HUGHESLangston Hughes Quotes
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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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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When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.
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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.
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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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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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