Langston Hughes Short Quotes

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It was the period when the Negro was in vogue.

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I got the Weary Blues
And I can't be satisfied.

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We have tomorrow
Bright before us
Like a flame.

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A certain amount
of nothing
in a dream deferred.

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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

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Love is a naked shadow
On a gnarled and naked tree.

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The night is beautiful,
So are the faces of my people.

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You talk like they
don't kick dreams
around downtown.

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Wear it
Like a banner
For the proud —
Not like a shroud.

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Wear it
Like a banner
Lor the proud—
Not like a shroud.

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What happens
to a dream deferred?
Daddy, ain't you heard?

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There's a certain
amount of traveling
in a dream deferred.

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AND ONE SHOULD LOVE ONE'S COUNTRY
FOR ONE'S COUNTRY IS YOUR MAMA.

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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words.
Otherwise, you are dead.

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My motto,
As I live and learn,
is:
Dig And Be Dug
In Return.

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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

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Murmuring gently Over fraises du bois,
"I'm so ashamed of being white."

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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.

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They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed —
I, too, am America.

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The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.

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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

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I am a Negro:
Black as the night is black,
Black like the depths of my Africa.

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But softly
As the tune comes from his throat
Trouble
Mellows to a golden note.

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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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Rest at pale evening...
A tall slim tree...
Night coming tenderly
Black like me.

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I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.

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I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.

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

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