Fall Quotes by Langston Hughes

8 Fall quotes by Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes’s eight autumn snippets pulse with rhythm, turning the season’s change into a soulful beat. This concise collection showcases his lyrical, resonant voice.

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I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody…

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Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I…

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The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to…

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In the spring rain, the pond and the river become one. Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when your car…

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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall.

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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others…

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Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards…

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The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.

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Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?

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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was…

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I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

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Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words…

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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

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“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these do not…

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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

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Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country…

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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

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“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that can not fly. Hold fast to dreams for when dreams…

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Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be.

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I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my…

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The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.

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