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People Quotes by Langston Hughes
- 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…
- Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
- It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want…
- Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that…
- It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
- 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…
- Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas
- When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
- Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem…
- To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
- Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
- Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
- Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
- 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.…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle