Langston Hughes Quotes

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

equality

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 Americaand change soon. We must help that change to come.

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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up - like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore - And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags - like a heavy lead

dreams

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

dreams tso-life

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

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Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

death music tso-life

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

free-thought philosophy religion tso-art

I went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't,So I jumped in and sank.

death desperation drowning poetry suicide

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.

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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, isDig and be dugIn return.

inspiration

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

simplicity tso-life

To some peopleLove is given,To othersOnly Heaven.

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