While over Alabama earth
These words are gently spoken
Serve — and hate will die unborn
Love — and chains are broken.Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright
“Alabama Earth” (1928)
At Booker T. Washington's grave.
Quotations by:
Hughes, Langston
Looky here, America
What you done done —
Let things drift
Until the riots come.
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright
“Beaumont to Detroit: 1943”
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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 (1902–1967) American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright
“Justice” (1923)
I swear to the Lord
I still can’t see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright
“The Black Man Speaks,” Jim Crow’s Last Stand (1943)
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Sometimes, even if a woman no longer wants you in her arms, she wants you in her heart.
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright
Story (1943), “Sometimes I Wonder” [Narrator], The Best of Simple (1961)
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