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"Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between."

~ Langston Hughes 💎 #Botd 1901

"I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?"
~ Langston Hughes

"The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it."
~ Langston Hughes

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
~ Langston Hughes

"A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the Earth
And every man is free."
~ Langston Hughes

"When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself"
~ Langston Hughes

"I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
...
I, too, am America."

~ Langston Hughes

"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.
I cannot live on tomorrow's bread."
~ Langston Hughes

"Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed -
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above."
~ Langston Hughes

"Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe."
~ Langston Hughes

"Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you."
~ Langston Hughes

"That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes."
~ Langston Hughes

"An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose."
~ Langston Hughes

"Road's in front o' me,
Nothin' to do but walk."
~ Langston Hughes

"O, let my land be a land where
Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe."
~ Langston Hughes

"When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul."
~ Langston Hughes