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Langston Hughes Inspirational Quotes (92)

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Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
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Life for me ain't been no crystal stair
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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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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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Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
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I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.
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I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that's in my mind.
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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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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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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
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Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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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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It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering I want to be white, hidden in the aspirations of his people, to Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!
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One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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For poems are like rainbows they escape you quickly.
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They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.
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