I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread. Langston Hughes More Quotes by Langston Hughes More Quotes From Langston Hughes When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left. Langston Hughes cornersturnsrunning Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful! Langston Hughes whitewantbeautiful I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied. Langston Hughes wearysatisfiedliterature Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why. Langston Hughes libertyeverydaysweet 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 America-and change soon. We must help that change to come. Langston Hughes songlongamerica It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white," hidden in the aspirations of his people, to "Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!" Langston Hughes whitebeautifulart This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back. Langston Hughes eggsmorningtwo Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.- Langston Hughes christianfaithgod To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven. Langston Hughes love-isheavenpeople I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems. Langston Hughes coldhalfjobs Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language. Langston Hughes daddysingingtrying I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer. Langston Hughes creativewritingbelieve Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul Langston Hughes rustpeacefulsoul It's such a Bore Being always Poor. Langston Hughes borespoorliterature The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent. Langston Hughes phonesdeathfall 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 wheat-fieldshomerivers Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me Langston Hughes blacktreenight Life for me ain't been no crystal stair Langston Hughes splintersstairscrystals How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ "Sea Calm Langston Hughes seatodaywater Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple. Langston Hughes nonsensedepressingsimple
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