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Just what is a liberal?" asked Simple.
"Well, as nearly as I can tell, a liberal is a nice man who acts decently toward people, talks democratically, and often is democratic in his personal life, but does not stand up very well in action when some real social issue like Jim Crow comes up. ― Langston Hughes,
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Because shoes got by devilish ways will burn your feet. ― Langston Hughes
Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. ― Langston Hughes
A life in association, not a life independent, is the democratic ideal. ― Terry Tempest Williams
My soul has grown deep like the rivers. ― Langston Hughes
The prerequisite for writing is having something to say. ― Langston Hughes
I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books — where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas. ― Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. ― Langston Hughes
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. Then let us hurry, comrades, The road to find. ― Langston Hughes
Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books-- where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables as we did in Kansas. ― Langston Hughes
But was that why Negroes were poor, because they were dancers, jazzers, clowns? . . . The other way round would be better: dancers because of their poverty; singers because they suffered; laughing all the time because they must forget.... It’s more like that, thought Sandy. ― Langston Hughes,
