"Blues had the pulse beat of the people…" — Langston Hughes
"Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going."
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144 Quotes by Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes has 144 quotes on this site.
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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…
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white…
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In the spring rain, the pond and the river become one. Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when…
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
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I will not take "but" for an answer.
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Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art…
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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone,…
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It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I…
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Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a…
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