Plain America Quotes by Langston Hughes

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• There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me.…
• We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are…
• In the spring rain, the pond and the river become one. Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when your car…
• Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
• I will not take "but" for an answer.
• Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
• Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
• I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
• It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old…
• Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
• 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…
• It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.

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