Langston Hughes citáty

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„Život je pre živých.
Smrť je pre mŕtvych.
Nech je život ako hudba.
A smrť ako nevyslovená poznámka.“

„Drž sa svojich snov pevne: pretože ak sny zomrú, Život zostane ako vták so zlomenými krídlami, ktorý nemôže lietať. Drž sa svojich snov pevne, pretože ak sny zomrú, Život je neúrodným poľom zamrznutým pod snehom.“

„Keď sa o vás ľudia starajú a plačú kvôli vám, môžu narovnať vašu dušu.“

“Democracy will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.”

“Love is a naked shadow
On a gnarled and naked tree.”

“For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay —
Except the dream that's almost dead today.”

“Good evening, daddy
I know you’ve heard
The boogie-woogie rumble
Of a dream deferred”

“The night is beautiful,
So are the faces of my people.”

“I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”

“Why should it be my loneliness,
Why should it be my song,
Why should it be my dream
deferred
overlong?”

“It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me
at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I’m what
I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you.”

“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
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain —
All, all the stretch of these great green states —
And make America again!”

“You see, unfortunately, I am not black. There are lots of different kinds of blood in our family. But here in the United States, the word “Negro” is used to mean anyone who has any Negro blood at all in his veins. In Africa, the word is more pure. It means all Negro, therefore black. I am brown. My father was a darker brown. My mother an olive-yellow.”

“For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.”

“O, let America be America again —
The land that never has been yet —
And yet must be — the land where every man is free.”

“Daddy, daddy, daddy,
All I want is you.
You can have me, baby —
but my lovin’ days is through.
A certain amount
of impotence
in a dream deferred.”

“The instructor said, Go home and write
a page tonight.
And let that page come out of you —
Then, it will be true.”

“I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek —
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.”

“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.”

“While over Alabama earth
These words are gently spoken:
Serve — and hate will die unborn.
Love — and chains are broken.”

“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.”