Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Langston Hughes More Quotes by Langston Hughes More Quotes From Langston Hughes Let the rain sing you a lullaby. Langston Hughes best-kiss liquid rain Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along. Langston Hughes prejudice black white Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. Langston Hughes laughter humor happiness I will not take "but" for an answer. Langston Hughes literature answers attitude Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose. Langston Hughes news might believe Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown. Langston Hughes tunnels new-york dream Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud. Langston Hughes banner black proud We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter. Langston Hughes artist white dark The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss Langston Hughes kissing faces rivers Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well. Langston Hughes atheism christian doubt One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help. Langston Hughes minorities race helping I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Langston Hughes rivers science blood Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat? Langston Hughes dream morning thinking To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man. Langston Hughes writing men book Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding. Langston Hughes walt findings details Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye. Langston Hughes apples eye love My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind. Langston Hughes kind humans america Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die. Langston Hughes may sweet baby I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust! Langston Hughes jealous falling-in-love beauty I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain't no lady. Sometimes I even wish I was living with my wife again so I could have my own place and not have no landladies. Langston Hughes women wife wish
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