Best Quotes by Langston Hughes (Top 10)
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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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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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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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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
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...the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,....
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on
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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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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
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More Langston Hughes Quotes
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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 swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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That 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.
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Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die?
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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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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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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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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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I will not take "but" for an answer.
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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
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