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My soul has grown deep like the rivers. ― Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes Quotes
Deep
Soul
Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it. ― Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes Quotes
Wonderful
Ansas
Lawrence
Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. ― Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes Quotes
Crystal
Stair
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
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Lonesome
Happen
Believe
As I learn from you, I guess you learn From me --- although You're older --- and white And somewhat more free. ― Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes Quotes
Although
Guess
I will not take ‘but’ for an answer. ― Langston Hughes
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Answer
Take
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. ― Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes Quotes
Broken
Winged
Your Dreams
Good people are not that good. To tell the truth, if I were white, no matter how much I loved Negroes, I doubt that I would submit myself to Jim Crow living conditions just to prove my love.” “Neither would I,” said Simple. “Then you would not be very good, either.” “No,” said Simple, “but I would be white. ― Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes Quotes
People
Conditions
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
Langston Hughes Quotes
Longer
Comrades
God in his infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise- So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise. ― Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes Quotes
Infinite
Wisdom
Poetry is the human soul entire Squeezed like a lemon or a lime, Drop by drop into atomic words". ― Langston Hughes
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Human
Drop
The prerequisite for writing is having something to say. ― Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes Quotes
Prerequisite
Something
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
Langston Hughes Quotes
Wonderful
Happen
Suffered
Tell all my mourners To mourn in red- Cause there ain't no sense In my bein' dead. ― Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes Quotes
Dead
Mourners
Cause
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,
Langston Hughes Quotes
Dancers
Poverty
Clowns
Because shoes got by devilish ways will burn your feet. ― Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes Quotes
Devilish
Shoes
Burn
This, the dream and the dreamer, wandering in the desert from Hopkinsville to Vienna in love with a streetwalker named Music.… ― Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes Quotes
Dreamer
Hopkinsville
Streetwalker
Just because I loves you– That's de reason why Ma soul is full of color Like de wings of a butterfly. Just because I loves you That's de reason why Ma heart's a fluttering aspen leaf When you pass by. ― Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes Quotes
Because
Loves
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,
Langston Hughes Quotes
Decently
Democratic