Langston Hughes Quotes
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O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath - America will be!
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I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I’m what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you.
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Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover To a cross roads tree.
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Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?
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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
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O, let America be America again - The land that never has been yet - And yet must be - the land where every man is free.
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Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.
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The night is beautiful, So are the faces of my people.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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Sure, call me any ugly name you choose - The steel of freedom does not stain. From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, We must take back our land again, America!
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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I was so sick last night I Didn't hardly know my mind. So sick last night I Didn't know my mind. I drunk some bad licker that Almost made me blind.
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'Democracy'
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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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I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek - And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
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A certain amount of nothing in a dream deferred.
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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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Daddy, daddy, daddy, All I want is you. You can have me, baby - but my lovin’ days is through. A certain amount of impotence in a dream deferred.